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  • 27-03-2003 3:28pm
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    Victor
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    Police find grenade in Japan-bound mail bag
    From:Reuters
    Thursday, 27th March, 2003
    By Dolly Aglay

    MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine security officials say a bomb made from a grenade and chemicals was found in a mail bag just before it was due to be loaded on to a Thai Airways International flight to Japan.

    The device was discovered while the sack was being X-rayed at a bonded warehouse near Manila airport, police said on Thursday. Bomb disposal experts planned to destroy the device in a controlled explosion.

    Security forces in the mainly Roman Catholic country are on high alert for rebel reprisals over the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and after a bomb blamed on Muslim guerrillas killed 22 people outside the airport in the southern city of Davao on March 4.

    "This grenade is attached to a device that will trigger the explosion once the plane reaches a certain altitude," General Jesus Verzosa, the head of the police's Aviation Security Group, told reporters.

    Victor Asuncion, chief of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service, said the 18-kg (40-lb) mail sack also contained chemicals that had yet to be identified.

    There was no immediate indication who put the bomb in the mail sack.

    Thai Airways flight TG 620 was due to fly to Osaka with 156 passengers at 8:25 a.m. British time after arriving in the Philippine capital from the Japanese city earlier on Thursday. The plane took off 20 minutes late.

    The airport's operations were not affected by the incident.

    In Bangkok, Thai airways spokeswoman Sunathee Isrvarphornchai said there was no grenade.

    "The object believed to be a grenade was not a grenade, but a suspected chemical container."

    The discovery came just two days after President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo publicly castigated the chief of Manila's airport for lax security during a surprise inspection.

    A visibly angry Arroyo did not like the way vehicles and people were being checked in and around the public parking lots.

    "There is no security," she told Ninoy Aquino International Airport general manager Edgardo Manda in front of television cameras, her aides and passengers. "What if something explodes?"
    "Bomb" at Manila airport is grenade-shaped lighter
    From:Reuters
    Thursday, 27th March, 2003

    MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine airport officials say a suspected bomb found in a mail bag turned out to be a lighter shaped like a grenade.

    Police scrambled into action after the device was discovered when the bag was X-rayed at a bonded warehouse near Manila airport before it was to be loaded on to a Thai Airways flight bound for Japan.

    "It turned out to be a lighter," Ninoy Aquino International Airport general manager Edgardo Manda told reporters.


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