July 18, 2002	Thursday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 7, 1423

WASHINGTON, July 17: An F-117 stealth fighter accidentally dropped three non-explosive 25-pound training bombs over the southwestern United States, hitting a house in one Texas town, an air force spokeswoman said Wednesday.

No injuries were reported as a result of the error Tuesday, said Major Marisse Bradshaw, a spokeswoman for the air force’s air combat command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.

“There was one bomb that actually hit a house” in Monahans, Texas, she said.—AFP