Mr Harrington told the jury the shopkeeper said it was strange for someone to have so much money in an envelope on a Sunday.

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Another person I spoke to, who is also a shopkeeper in the area, said he heard the blast when he was inside the shop.

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"When I heard the blast it was like a earthquake tremor, " said Santosh Bhosale, a shopkeeper who was nearby at the time.

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"For me, I'm very happy he's coming, " said Juana DeArmas, a shopkeeper in the capital's Old Havana neighborhood.

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One shopkeeper said he heard a loud bang and came out and saw the bus-stop decimated and people lying injured on the road.

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Police said the previous evening an eyewitness saw what he thought was the shopkeeper and another man, who looked like a friend, in the shop.

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"The Turkanas are fleeing from Suguta area with their household goods, goats and cattle, " said Peter Legerded, a shopkeeper from Baragoi town, which is outside the valley, told Reuters news agency.

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And a Maltese shopkeeper, Tony Gauci, was the only witness to identify Megrahi as the man who he said bought several items of clothing which were later found wrapped around the bomb which destroyed Pan-Am Flight 103.

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"Either way it's bad for business, " said Omar, another shopkeeper, who shut his copper workshop in a suburb where the opposition has called several general strikes.

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"Due to power outages, all the perishable food stocks in my refrigerators and freezers were ruined, " said Usama, a Damascus shopkeeper who asked only to be identified by his first name to protect himself from reprisal.

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