At least seven people were killed, including a number of children, and dozens were wounded in a suicide bombing Tuesday night on a bus in downtown Jerusalem. Police said checking if bomber dressed as ultra-Orthodox Jew
By Amos Harel and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Reuters
At least seven people were killed, including a
number of children, and dozens were wounded in a
suicide bombing Tuesday night on a bus in downtown
Jerusalem.
The explosion occured at around
9 P.M. in the Shmuel Hanavi
neighborhood of the capital.
There has as yet been no claim
of responsibility.
Jerusalem police chief Mickey
Levy said that the bomb had
been a large one, and that bus
was still being checked for further explosive
devices.
Most of the people on the bus, which was
travelling from the Western Wall to the
religious neighborhood of Har Nof, were
ultra-Orthodox Jews, Channel One Television
reported. Police are checking the possibility
that the terrorist was disguised as a Haredi
Jew, the report said.
Reuters journalist Barry Moody said two buses
were hit by the blast. He said one - on which
the suicide bomber is thought to have set off
his explosive device - was completely
devastated, while the other - travelling behind
- had its windows blown out.
The Magen David Adom rescue service said that at
least 74 people were wounded, some in serious
condition.
Police have closed the site off to traffic and
have asked the public to keep away from the
scene of the blast.
Emergency numbers:
Hadassah, Mount Scopus: 1255121
Bikur Holim Hospital: 1255123
Hadassah, Ein Karem: 1255122
Shaare Zedek: 1255125 |
