Police stun grenades burned some protesters and unleashed hard-plastic shrapnel that penetrated the flesh of others.
The bomb, packed with plastic explosives and shrapnel, killed two American soldiers and a Turkish woman and injured 229 others, some of whom lost limbs and were permanently disabled.
Another air bag incident, also involving hot plastic and metal shrapnel, occurred in Los Angeles just three months ago.
FBI officials said the device was similar to those recovered in New York, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, and consisted of a plastic pipe containing shrapnel and a pyrotechnic material.
FBI officials said the device was similar to those recovered in New York, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, which consisted of a plastic pipe containing shrapnel and a pyrotechnic material.
I've been sitting with Matilda Wnek, one half of the London-based sketch duo Beard, for less than a minute when her comedy partner, Rosa Robson, approaches our table holding a sorry plastic stick with shrapnel from a popped balloon on the end.
Barely a few paces from the Egyptian border stands a large white tent, fashioned from plastic sheeting and pockmarked with jagged shrapnel holes.
A 51-year-old general handed me one of the home-made grenades that littered the floor of the Sharaf mosque; a fluffy fuse poking from the top of a lump of shrapnel, coated in white plastic and covered in black adhesive tape.
Half-buried shopping carts protrude from sandbars like grave markers; lost or castoff toys; Styrofoam shrapnel, printer cartridges and of course plastic bottles.
