A woman was killed and 62 passengers injured in a stampede Thursday after a bomb scare aboard a Saudi jumbo jet which was about to take off from Sri Lanka’s only international airport, officials said. A woman was killed and 62 passengers injured in a stampede Thursday after a bomb scare aboard a Saudi jumbo jet which was about to take off from Sri Lanka’s only international airport, officials said. Six people, four of them women, were taken to the nearby Negombo Base hospital where one, a Sri Lankan national, died of her injuries, a hospital spokesman said.
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