Cairo, July 23 (Jiji Press)--Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese Red Army member on an international wanted list as a perpetrator of a deadly shooting attack on an Israeli international airport in 1972, died in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, a Palestinian group said Thursday. He was 78.

U 78. godini u Bejrutu je umro Kozo Okamoto, japanski militant koji je 1972. sudjelovao u smrtonosnom napadu na aerodrom kod Tel Aviva.

The Japanese Red Army terrorist was the sole surviving member of the squad that murdered 24 people and wounded 71 in 1972; Israel released him in the 1985 Jibril prisoner exchange