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Urgent: British student found guilty of planting underground bomb in London

Xinhua, May 3, 2017 Adjust font size:

A British student has been found guilty of building a bomb and leaving it on a London metro train, local media reported on Wednesday.

Damon Smith, 20, from Rotherhithe in southeast London, had admitted perpetrating a bomb hoax but tried to defend himself by saying that he only intended to make a smoke bomb to scare people. Endit