/ 15 July 2001

SUDANESE MAN KILLED AS DOORSTOP EXPLODES

A Sudanese man was killed and two others wounded when a bomb he used as a doorstop exploded on Wednesday at a shop in a village about 50km south of Khartoum. The shopkeeper killed in the blast, had used the bomb to hold the door open, apparently unaware that the object was an explosive. The bomb also destroyed the shop, injuring two other men who were rushed to hospital, the paper added. – AFP