JERUSALEM: EMERGENCY SERVICES CLEAN UP THE SCENE AFTER A PALESTINIAN SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ON A BUS BY HAMAS, WHICH KILLED AT LEAST SIXTEEN PEOPLE.

Record ID: 647792

  • Title: JERUSALEM: EMERGENCY SERVICES CLEAN UP THE SCENE AFTER A PALESTINIAN SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ON A BUS BY HAMAS, WHICH KILLED AT LEAST SIXTEEN PEOPLE.
  • Date: 11th June 2003
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (JUNE 1, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS/MV/ZOOM OUT: NIGHT VIEW OF STREET BEING CLEANED. (2 SHOTS) 0.13 2. VARIOUS: NIGHT VIEW OF EMERGENCY SERVICES PULLING STRETCHER WITH BODY COVERED BY PLASTIC, TRUCK PASSING BY. 0.32 3. MLV: NIGHT VIEW OF WRECKAGE BEING LOADED BACK ON REAR OF BUS. 0.41 4. MV: NIGHT VIEW OF SMASHED LATERAL WINDOWS, TWISTED METAL. 0.49 5. MV:NIGHT VIEW OF PEOPLE ON STRETCHER BEING MOVED. 0.59 6. CU/ZOOM OUT/WS: NIGHT VIEW TRUCK CLEANING ASPHALT. 1.11 7. WS: NIGHT VIEW OF EMERGENCY SERVICES AROUND BUS. 1.28 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 26th June 2003 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA29N2Q895VEZSR2AVV1NCS9HU
  • Story Text: Emergency services have started to clean the scene of
    the attack in Jerusalem as the number of victims escalate.



    A Palestinian suicide bomber killed at least 16 people
    and injured nearly 100 on a Jerusalem bus on Wednesday (June
    11) to avenge an Israeli bid to assassinate a Hamas leader.

    Police said the bomb was packed with nails for maximum
    effect. Body parts and pools of blood littered the sidewalk.

    The vehicle's windows were shattered and its roof partly blown
    off.

    Hamas said it dispatched the bomber, disguised as an
    ultra-Orthodox Jew, to carry out the revenge attack. The blast
    tore through a crowded No. 14 bus near the city's main
    open-air market and sent bodies and limbs flying through the
    air.

    Minutes later, Israeli helicopters fired missiles in Gaza
    that killed two Hamas militants and five other Palestinians.

    U.S. President George W. Bush, watching his "road map"
    peace plan engulfed in a new cycle of killing within a week of
    its launch, condemned the bombing and said: "I call upon all
    the free world...to use every ounce of their power to prevent
    them."
    Bush launched the plan just last week with Israeli Prime
    Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian premier Mahmoud Abbas,
    in the hope of ending 32 months of bloodshed.

    But strike and bloody counter-strike have followed. Hamas
    said it was responding to Israel's failed bid on Tuesday to
    kill Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, a co-founder of the radical
    Islamic movement, in a missile attack in Gaza on Tuesday (June
    10).



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