vrijdag, mei 02, 2003
A Japanese photographer was detained after a metal object he had picked up in Iraq as a "souvenir" exploded at an international airport in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Thursday, killing a security guard and injuring three other people. Jordan's security authorities took Hiroki Gomi, 36, a photographer at the Mainichi Newspapers, into custody and are questioning him over the blast.
A security guard found suspicious metal objects in Gomi's suitcase during an X-ray screening and was examining one of them when it went off, according to Associated Press and other reports. The security guard died instantly and two other security guards and a bystander were injured. One of the injured security guards is in critical condition.
The explosives were numerous bell-shaped metal objects he found scattered around a car abandoned along a road in Iraq on April 11 while traveling from Amman to Baghdad, according to a Japanese diplomat in Jordan. He picked up two of them as "souvenirs." He had been carrying them in his camera bag. He was quoted as telling Jordanian officials that he was aware they were explosive devices, but that he decided to take them home anyhow because he thought they had already been used and would no longer go off.
When the airport security guard asked him about the metal objects, Gomi picked up one of them and told the guard that he had found them. The guard confiscated it and was examining it about five meters away from Gomi when it suddenly went off.
Gomi is currently in custody of the Jordanian security authorities, and is set to face interrogation by prosecutors on Sunday. Gomi began his news coverage in Baghdad in February. He went to Jordan after the U.S.-led war against Iraq broke out, but returned to Baghdad on April 11. He finished his work in Baghdad on Monday and traveled to Jordan by road. He was to leave Amman for Japan via Cairo.
Bron: Mainichi Shimbun.
A security guard found suspicious metal objects in Gomi's suitcase during an X-ray screening and was examining one of them when it went off, according to Associated Press and other reports. The security guard died instantly and two other security guards and a bystander were injured. One of the injured security guards is in critical condition.
The explosives were numerous bell-shaped metal objects he found scattered around a car abandoned along a road in Iraq on April 11 while traveling from Amman to Baghdad, according to a Japanese diplomat in Jordan. He picked up two of them as "souvenirs." He had been carrying them in his camera bag. He was quoted as telling Jordanian officials that he was aware they were explosive devices, but that he decided to take them home anyhow because he thought they had already been used and would no longer go off.
When the airport security guard asked him about the metal objects, Gomi picked up one of them and told the guard that he had found them. The guard confiscated it and was examining it about five meters away from Gomi when it suddenly went off.
Gomi is currently in custody of the Jordanian security authorities, and is set to face interrogation by prosecutors on Sunday. Gomi began his news coverage in Baghdad in February. He went to Jordan after the U.S.-led war against Iraq broke out, but returned to Baghdad on April 11. He finished his work in Baghdad on Monday and traveled to Jordan by road. He was to leave Amman for Japan via Cairo.
Bron: Mainichi Shimbun.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 09:51
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