Bomb Explodes in Car Parked Near U.S. Berlin Base
WEST BERLIN — A bomb exploded in a car parked near the U.S. Tempelhof Air Base on Thursday in what was apparently the second guerrilla action in the city in two days, police said.
A police spokesman said the blast damaged the car badly and set a second parked car ablaze. No one was hurt.
Police experts were called in to defuse a number of hand grenades found in the car after the blast.
Witnesses said several people ran from the car shortly before it blew up and caught fire. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the blast.
On Tuesday, a high West Berlin civil servant was shot twice in the legs in front of his home, but suffered only flesh wounds.
The left-wing Revolutionary Cells guerrilla group, which has often staged attacks on the U.S. armed forces in West Germany, claimed responsibility for the action.
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