21 Wounded In Jerusalem Bus Explosion
KABUL: (MEP) At least 21 people have been wounded after a bomb explosion and subsequent fire has ripped through a bus in West Jerusalem, Israeli police said.
Two casualties were taken to hospital in a serious condition following the blast, near the Hebron Road.
Police were initially uncertain whether Monday’s explosion was caused by a bomb, saying all causes of the blast were being investigated.
The explosion, the first in Jerusalem since the end of the second intifada a decade ago, gutted the number 12 Egged bus and set fire to a second passing bus, as well as a car. Most of the injuries occurred when the second bus was caught in the blast from the first.
The head of the emergency department at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center told Israeli Army Radio that some of the injuries were caused by flying metal nails and nuts.
Most of the injuries were said to be burn wounds and smoke inhalation.
An AFP news agency journalist at the scene said one bus was completely burnt out while another was partially burned, with a large contingent of firefighters battling to extinguish the blaze.
