JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: SUICIDE BOMBER BLOWS HIMSELF UP AND INJURES 22 PEOPLE IN CAR BOMB ATTACK AT A BUSY JERUSALEM INTERSECTION
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JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: SUICIDE BOMBER BLOWS HIMSELF UP AND INJURES 22 PEOPLE IN CAR BOMB ATTACK AT A BUSY JERUSALEM INTERSECTION
- Title: JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: SUICIDE BOMBER BLOWS HIMSELF UP AND INJURES 22 PEOPLE IN CAR BOMB ATTACK AT A BUSY JERUSALEM INTERSECTION
- Date: 27th March 2001
- Summary: (W5) JERUSALEM (MARCH 27, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE TRAFFIC JAM ON ROAD OF BOMBING SITE; ZOOM INTO DAMAGED BUS 0.07 2. VARIOUS OF POLICE CORDONING OFF SCENE/ DAMAGED BUS/ POLICE ARGUING WITH PHOTOGRAPHER (9 SHOTS) 0.46 3. SLV: POLICE EXAMINING BODY OF SUICIDE BOMBER; POLICE COVERING UP BODY 0.55 4. MV: CIVILIANS AND POLICE GATHERED A
- Embargoed: 11th April 2001 13:00
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- Location: JERUSALEM/ NEAR NABLUS, WEST BANK
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- Country: Israel
- Reuters ID: LVA9BHGJPARJBAOLAKWOGTM50ETE
- Story Text: A suicide bomber blew himself up at a busy Jerusalem
intersection and wounded 22 people in the second bomb attack
to rock Jewish neighbourhoods of the holy city on Tuesday.
A man with a bag got onto a Number 6 bus and raised the
suspicions of the passengers. He immediately got off the bus
and then the explosion occurred, Jerusalem police said.
Police said they recovered the smashed body of the bomber
beside the bus. He wore explosives on a belt around his waist.
They said of the 22 wounded taken to hospital, one was
critically injured and another seriously.
The attack took place in the French Hill neighbourhood on
land Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed
in a move not recognised internationally. Police said there
was no obvious link to the previous attack six hours earlier.
There were at least four separate claims of responsibility
for the two blasts in Jerusalem.
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said, "It looks
like there is an organised attempt to augment terror and
violence and I think its tragic it will lead nowhere. The only
way to make peace is by direct negotiation, without the threat
of violence, without bombing and shooting. I think this is a
grave error which affects the peace process very negatively."
A group called the Popular Army Front claimed
responsibility for the suicide bombing in a fax to Reuters in
Beirut. The Palestinian group also claimed responsibility for
a blast in Jerusalem last month.
In the earlier attack, a car bomb exploded near an Israeli
shopping mall in the Talpiot shopping and industrial area,
injuring three people during the morning rush hour.
Responsibility for that attack was claimed by at least three
militant pro-Palestinian militant groups.
Palestinian militants have carried out attacks in Israel
with increasing frequency since the outbreak of a Palestinian
uprising six months ago, and the two blasts coincided with an
Arab summit in Amman called in part to show support for the
revolt.
There have been conflicting claims of responsibility for
past attacks.
Israel's right-wing mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert,
accused Palestinian President Yasser Arafat of fomenting the
attacks, adding: "Considering the events that are taking
place we should have no more restrains and I'm sure that the
Prime Minister will so order the Israeli security forces. And
I hope there will be some action."
Palestinians in a small West Bank town near the city of
Nablus on Tuesday (March 27) took to the streets to publicise
the plight of Palestinians in the West Bank. The
demonstration, which lead to clashes with Israeli soldiers,
was timed to coincide with a summit of Arab heads-of-state in
neighbouring Jordan.
Children threw stones at Israeli soldiers manning a
roadblock on the outskirts of the town of Beit Tufour and
soldiers replied with tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets.
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