Ten Israelis were killed and more than 40 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up on an Egged bus in Jerusalem shortly after 7 AM this morning, Israel Radio reported.
Magen David Adom said that eight of the injured were in serious condition.
The bomber targeted bus number 20, as it was travelling on Mexico Street in the Kiryat Menachem neighborhood in West Jerusalem, Jerusalem police said.
Sources in Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement said the bomber was from the Hamas movement, Israel Radio said.
Emergency telephone numbers:
Hadassah Ein Karem hospital: 125 5122
Shaarei Zedek hospital: 125 5125
Hadassah Mount Scopus hospital: 125 5121
Published by Globes [online] - www.globes.co.il - on 21 November, 2002