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One dead, five injured in Colombian bus blast
October 15, 1996
Web posted at: 10:45 p.m. EDT (0245 GMT)BOGOTA (CNN) -- One man died and five people were injured when a hand grenade exploded on a bus in the Caribbean coastal resort of Cartagena on Tuesday, Colombian police said.
The blast ripped through the city bus after a man got on board to escape police. The man, who was killed in the explosion, had tried and failed to extort money from a shopkeeper, national police sources said.
Three passengers and two police officers in the street nearby also were injured. Authorities cordoned off the area and called in explosives experts to defuse another grenade found near the dead man's body.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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