Explosion timed for Shevardnadze?
NZPA-Reuter Bangkok
A bomb killed one person and seriously wounded another outside a Soviet office in Vientiane on Monday during the visit by the Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, to Laos, diplomatic sources in Bangkok said yesterday. The powerful bomb went off at 7 a.m. near the Soviet Information Centre, and both casualties were Laotians, the sources said. Mr Shevardnadze arrived in Vientiane on Sunday afternoon at the start
of a tour of communist Indochina, but it was not clear whether he was due to visit the centre during his stay. The police quickly cordoned off the area and blocked passers-by from viewing the extent of the damage, the sources said.
Vientiane residents reached by telephone from Bangkok said people in the area believed that the man killed in the blast was trying to plant the bomb at a gate in front of the centre. The wounded man was said to be his accomplice, they added.
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