Geneva Bomb Blast Injures 5, Including 2 American Women
GENEVA — A bomb exploded Friday outside a building housing the Geneva office of the Soviet airline Aeroflot, and officials said five passers-by were injured, including two American women.
Four of the people, including one of the Americans, sustained serious injuries.
Geneva police spokesman Marcel Vaudroz said that aside from the 59-year-old and 22-year-old American tourists, the victims were a 34-year-old Italian man, a 60-year-old French woman and a 21-year-old French man.
He declined to provide their names.
He said the younger U.S. woman was released from the hospital after treatment for shock.
Police said the bomb, hidden in a trash can, went off at 4:30 p.m. in front of the building.
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