World IN BRIEF : INDIA : Bomb Discovered on Air-India 747
A bomb was found aboard an Air-India jetliner minutes before the plane was to have taken off for London and New York with 407 people on board, police and airline officials said. The bomb, designed to go off by remote control, was disarmed at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. In Srinagar, center of a Kashmiri secessionist revolt against Indian rule, a caller telephoned a news agency to say a militant group planted the bomb. The caller claimed to be the spokesman for the Muslim Janbaz (Crusader) Force, one of several militant groups seeking to split Kashmir from India.
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