The World : Bomb Traces on French Jet
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Traces of Semtex, a powerful plastic explosive, were found in the wreckage of the French DC-10 that crashed last week after an explosion over Africa, killing all 171 aboard, two Paris newspapers reported. Liberation and Le Parisien said the discovery strengthens the connection between the UTA airliner crash and the bombing last December of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland. The papers, citing unidentified sources in the investigation, said laboratory tests in Paris still have to confirm the presence of Semtex, a malleable, hard-to-detect plastic explosive made in Czechoslovakia.
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