WGNNews.org   Posted 12:04 P.M.  CST : November 21, 2002

Nov. 21, 2002
ELEVEN DEAD, 50 WOUNDED IN SUICIDE BUS ATTACK IN JERUSALEM
By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF

A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt packed with nuts and bolts blew himself up Thursday on a bus full of high school students on their way to classes in Jerusalem's Kiryat Menachem neighborhood, killing 11 people and wounding 50.

One of the dead was a 13-year-old girl, and many of the wounded were teenagers, media reports said.

Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, and Israeli officials said the terrorist came from Bethlehem, which raised the possibility Israel might retake the West Bank town from which it withdrew in August.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met in Tel Aviv with Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz to weigh Israel's response.