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.