MUNICH, West Germany -- A bomb hidden in a suitcase exploded today at a passenger check-in station at Munich Airport where people were waiting for a flight to Israel. Police said seven people were injured, one of them seriously.
A police spokesman said the bomb went off about 3 p.m. (9 a.m. EDT) in the airport's check-in station for passengers for an El Al flight to Israel.
'We cannot yet say who set the bomb,' a police spokesman said.
The spokesman said twopolicemen were wounded in the blast, one of them seriously. Five other people were hurt, including an El Al airline security officer, he said.
He said the bomb was concealed in the luggage of one of the passengers, most of whom were Israelis.
A witness said the explosion smashed windows and sent fragments of the walls and roof of the building flying through the air.
'It sounded like a low-flying jet going through the sound barrier,' he said.
