Hostages held in Singapore
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright> SINGAPORE, January 31.
A group of men claiming to be members of the Japanese Red Army today blew up a storage tank at an oil refinery at Singapore and were holding six hostages aboard a hijacked boat.
The men had threatened to kill their hostages and themselves if they were not given safe passage out of Singapore.
' Two of the Japanese were killed and the third, Kozo Okamoto, received a life sentence from an Israeli military court.
The group, consisting of four men, caused an explosion just before midday in a storage tank at the Shell refinery on Pulau Bokom, one of Singapore’s close offshore islands.
No-one was injured in the; blast and the fire was quickly I put out. Three of the group then seized a Shell ferry boat, taking six hostages. More than 100 people were killed and wounded in a suicide attack on Tel Aviv’s Lydda Airport by three Japanese Red Army members on May 30, 1972.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33448, 1 February 1974, Page 18
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