A woman died and 39 others were injured as a result of bombing in front of the International Convention Center Jerusalem, near the central bus station, official sources confirmed. The only fatality was a woman of 59 years of age, who died as a result of injuries sustained by the strong blast, at a time when it was taken to hospital by emergency personnel.
Police confirmed that 39 people were injured, including three seriously and two pregnant women. The bombing of the first of its kind since 2004 in Jerusalem, according to a report in the online edition of the daily Jerusalem Post. According to initial investigations, the explosion was caused by a bomb, apparently left in a phone booth in front of the International Convention Centre, near where he hoped to stop a bus full of passengers.
The explosion was heard throughout the city and caused the destruction of the windows of the bus, en route to the Givat Shaul Har Homa, said a police spokesman told the press. A witness present in the area at the time of the explosion told the Haaretz newspaper that he heard a loud explosion near the central bus station and minutes later began to sound the sirens of emergency vehicles and security forces.
Public Security Minister, Yitzhak Aharonovich, told Channel 2 of Israeli television that the bomb used in the attack was one to two kilos of weight and was planted in a small bag, which was abandoned in the street. To avoid that, as on previous occasions, the rescue services were targeted by a second blast, security forces surrounded the area and oversaw the entire area for other suspicious packages or objects.
The attack came just hours after Palestinian militants in Gaza fired two Katyusha rockets against southern city of Beer Sheva and mortar shells in the Negev in southern Israel. The attack prompted the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel his trip that was scheduled for Moscow in the coming days, and to convene an emergency meeting with his Council of Ministers.
Jerusalem has been hit by a series of terrorist attacks in recent years, but this Wednesday is the first in which a pump is used since 2004, but in March 2008 the mall was the target of an armed attack. 
Police confirmed that 39 people were injured, including three seriously and two pregnant women. The bombing of the first of its kind since 2004 in Jerusalem, according to a report in the online edition of the daily Jerusalem Post. According to initial investigations, the explosion was caused by a bomb, apparently left in a phone booth in front of the International Convention Centre, near where he hoped to stop a bus full of passengers.
The explosion was heard throughout the city and caused the destruction of the windows of the bus, en route to the Givat Shaul Har Homa, said a police spokesman told the press. A witness present in the area at the time of the explosion told the Haaretz newspaper that he heard a loud explosion near the central bus station and minutes later began to sound the sirens of emergency vehicles and security forces.
Public Security Minister, Yitzhak Aharonovich, told Channel 2 of Israeli television that the bomb used in the attack was one to two kilos of weight and was planted in a small bag, which was abandoned in the street. To avoid that, as on previous occasions, the rescue services were targeted by a second blast, security forces surrounded the area and oversaw the entire area for other suspicious packages or objects.
The attack came just hours after Palestinian militants in Gaza fired two Katyusha rockets against southern city of Beer Sheva and mortar shells in the Negev in southern Israel. The attack prompted the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel his trip that was scheduled for Moscow in the coming days, and to convene an emergency meeting with his Council of Ministers.
Jerusalem has been hit by a series of terrorist attacks in recent years, but this Wednesday is the first in which a pump is used since 2004, but in March 2008 the mall was the target of an armed attack.
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