LA PAZ, AUG. 8, REUTER — U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and his entourage escaped unharmed when a bomb exploded by their motorcade on Monday and damaged three vehicles, including one carrying Shultz’s wife, U.S. officials said.
The explosion, believed to have been set off by remote control, erupted seconds after Shultz’s car passed by the device on a road leading into the Bolivian capital from the airport.
Some cars in the motorcade were still going by when the explosion went off, scattering chunks of pavement with a loud boom and a cloud of smoke.
Three vehicles were damaged. A window was cracked in the vehicle carrying Shultz’s wife, Helena, who travels in a separate car when travelling with her husband. U.S. officials said she was jolted but not hurt.
It was the first attack against Shultz in his Six years and one million miles of world travel as secretary of state. It was also the first known attack on a senior U.S. official since President Reagan was shot and wounded in a March 1981 assassination attempt.
Reagan learned of the attack on Shultz’s motorcade while aboard Air Force One enroute to Cincinnati for speechmaking appearances, spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said.
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