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Bomb thwarted at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City
Italian police report that Giuseppe Santangelo, 54, of Salerno, attempted to light a crude homemade bomb near the Bernini altar as 20,000 gathered for Saints Peter and Paul Day Mass. Vatican security overpowered him. he was handed to Italian authorities for questioning while Cardinal Casaroli prepared a multinational Mass elsewhere.
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