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Suicide bomber kills 10, wounds dozens on bus in Jerusalem rush hour

The Associated Press

JERUSALEM - A suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded Jerusalem city bus during morning's rush hour, killing himself and 10 passengers and wounding dozens, police sources said. Many school children were on the bus, officials said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the first in Jerusalem since August.

The bomber set off the explosives in Jerusalem's Kiryat Menachem neighborhood at about 7:15 a.m.

Several bodies still lay near the bus after at least 38 wounded were taken to hospitals. Seven of the wounded were in serious condition.

Children's sandwiches and schoolbooks lay scattered in the street around the shattered bus, Yaron Enosh, an Israel Radio reporter said, noting that the bus exploded at a time when children go to school.

"There are students among the wounded," Yeruham Mandola, spokesman for the Magen David Adom paramedic service, told Israel Radio. He could not say how many of the wounded were schoolchildren.

David Baker, an official in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office, condemned the attack.

"Palestinian terrorists continue to cling to the bloodshed agenda and they are satisfied only when innocent Israeli lives are taken," Baker told The Associated Press.

The explosion on Mexico Street in a neighborhood near Jerusalem's largest hospital, Hadassah Ein Kerem, was the first bombing since Nov. 4, when a bomber blew himself up at a shopping mall in central Israel.

The Israeli army has reoccupied most Palestinian towns and cities in the West Bank to try and halt the bombings that have been an integral part of 26 months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.

On Wednesday, Israeli and Palestinian leaders had talked about restarting the peace process.

Senior Palestinian officials welcomed a call by Israel's new opposition leader to restart talks, but held back outright endorsement - apparently fearing it would hurt the ex-general's chances in January elections.

Many Palestinians are eager for the removal of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who - during 20 months in office - has ravaged the Palestinian security forces, cracked down on militant groups and sent troops to reoccupy and impose curfews on most Palestinian cities in the West Bank.


(Published 12:30AM, November 21st, 2002)



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