BUS STOP BLAST ROCKS JERUSALEM

This story from The Sun is interesting:


The device was left in a bag at a bus stop hours after Palestinian militants threatened revenge for Israeli raids in Gaza that left eight people dead.

It is the first militant attack in Jerusalem for several years.

Injured … police help a wounded man

The blast happened as passengers were getting on and off the bus as many were leaving work.

It was not believed to be the work of a suicide bomber, and police were searching for a suspect seen leaving the area.

Speaking from the scene of the blast, Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said: “The bomb was inside a bag, which was left at the bus stop.”

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ONE woman dead and dozens of people injured in blast at crowded station

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Local police said “dozens” were injured in the blast.

The attack comes amid rising tensions between Hamas extremists and Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postponed his departure to Russia in light of the incident.

He had earlier warned of an “exchange of blows” after two rockets slammed into the city of Beersheba this morning.

The Al Quds Brigades, which claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks, warned that it had entered “a new phase of bombing targets which are further away, where thousands of Israelis live”.
Source: http://sfluxe.com/2011/12/16/bus-stop-blast-rocks-jerusalem/