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DARWIN, Australia (AP) - A U.S. Marine Corps fighter jet missed its bombing target and dropped a bomb near a tower at a military range in remote northern Australia, damaging the building and igniting a gas cylinder, officials said Friday.
The bomb, dropped by an F/A-18 Hornet, exploded near the control tower and damaged facilities at the Delamere Air Weapons Range in the Northern Territory on Wednesday, Australia's Defense Department said.
Lt. Col. Jeff Blau, a spokesman for the Marine Corps Forces Pacific, based at Camp H.M. Smith in Hawaii, said the bomb also ignited a gas cylinder nearby. Blau said one minor injury was reported.
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