He credits a freak bomb explosion when he was 18 with transforming his outlook on life.
In 1975, a bomb explosion at New York's La Guardia airport killed 11 people.
"It was not a bomb explosion, " one official told AFP news agency.
In western Bangladesh, police say at least three people died in a bomb explosion near Khustia, 300km (190 miles) west of the capital.
In May 2003, for example, Afghan forces captured Prisoner 1051, an Afghan named Sharbat, near the scene of a roadside bomb explosion, the documents show.
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Only Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have played Tests in Karachi since a bomb explosion in the city prompted New Zealand to abandon a tour in 2002.
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Rupert Hamer, a British journalist working for the Sunday Mirror, also died this January, together with a US marine, in a roadside bomb explosion in Helmand province.
There, prosecutors studied where the bomb had been positioned and how its explosion had fatally damaged the jumbo jet.
Army bomb disposal officers carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious object that was found on the Cavehill Road, close to a police station.
Officers escorted the bomb to a nearby field where a controlled explosion was carried out shortly after 1400 GMT.
Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed by a head injury she received from a suicide bomb blast and not by gunfire that preceded the explosion, investigators from Britain's Scotland Yard said Friday.
He said Army bomb disposal officers arrived quickly and carried out a controlled explosion.
Mr Penny said the device caused panic and an army bomb disposal unit came from Nottingham to conduct a controlled explosion.
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When General Leslie Groves, manager of the Manhattan Project, witnessed the explosion of the world's first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, he thought of Blondin crossing the Falls on a tightrope.
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