(Update) The attack took place at a soldiers' hitch-hiking point at French Hill. Magen David Adom reports some 20 casualties.
At least seven people were killed, and some 20 people injured, several of them seriously, in a suicide bombing attack at French Hill in Jerusalem this evening.
The incident took place at about 19:00. Voice of Israel radio reports that the bomber emerged from a vehicle that brought him to the place, ran towards a soldiers' hitch-hiking point and blew himself up close to it. A Border Guard policeman attempted to prevent the attacker reaching the hitch-hiking point, and was injured in the explosion.
The area has been sealed off in an attempt to catch whoever transported the attacker.
Emergency number at Jerusalem hospitals:
Hadassah Mount Scopus: 121-1255
Hadassah Ein-Kerem: 122-1255
Bikur Holim: 123-1255
Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on 19 June 2002