US air marshal shoots passenger after bomb claim

A PASSENGER who claimed to have a bomb in a carry-on bag was shot and killed by a US federal air marshal yesterday on a jetway to an American Airlines plane that had arrived from Colombia.

US Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Doyle said the dead passenger was a 44-year-old US citizen.

It was the first time since the September 11 attacks that an air marshal had shot at a passenger or suspect, he said.