21.   Airport staff were issued with a security alert shortly after the blast was reported.

22.   Bosnian Serb radio reported powerful blasts rocking Pale Wednesday as NATO planes bombed what it said were civilian targets around the Serb stronghold.

23.   Cambodian military officials reported the blast on Thursday, which they said had killed or injured over twenty people, without confirming who was responsible.

24.   The mid-air blast was reported by the pilot of another aircraft which was flying near the plane that crashed, Raad said.

25.   Two apparently unconnected blasts have been reported recently in Paris.

26.   Two blasts were earlier reported, but police later said the second report was probably an echo of the first.

27.   On the Syrian side of the frontier, the international press has recently been reporting bomb blasts in several areas.

28.   Sporadic home-made bomb blasts were reported in Dhaka and elsewhere on Sunday.

29.   The blast was reported by the pilot of another aircraft which was flying near the plane that crashed, Raad added.

30.   The blast itself was reported in the sky above the village of Dingy Saint-Clair, the prefecture said.