Twenty-one people were wounded when an explosive device blew up on a bus on Monday afternoon, causing it to catch on fire while it was driving on Moshe Baram Road in Jerusalem, in what the defense establishment suspects to be a terror bombing.
The number 12 Egged bus was travelling from the East Talpiot neighborhood (Armon HaNatziv) towards Mount Herzl when an explosion went off on it and it caught fire. As a result of the explosion, a nearby bus and a private vehicle also caught on fire.
Jerusalem District Commander Yoram HaLevy confirmed on Monday evening the explosion was caused by an explosive device placed in the rear part of the bus.
“We are still in the initial stages of the investigation. We’re trying to find out primarily where the explosive device came from and who placed it on the bus,” HaLevy said, adding that it should not take police much longer to indentify who planted the explosive on the bus.
He did, however, stress that “we can’t at the moment come out with a clear statement that this was done by a terrorist or a suicide bomber. We’re looking into all possibilities, as we do in every scene of an incident.”
Magen David Adom paramedics treated 21 wounded, among them two in serious condition, six in moderate condition and the rest lightly wounded. Some of the wounded are suffering from different degrees of burns, while most are suffering from smoke inhalation. The wounded were taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center and the Hadassah Medical Center’s Ein Karem and Mount Scopus hospitals.
MDA spokesman Zaki Heller said that when paramedics arrived at the scene, all of the wounded were outside the bus and none were found inside by firefighters.
Hadassah’s Ein Karem hospital received eight of the wounded, including a 28-year-old woman in serious condition, three wounded in moderate condition (a 25-year-old man, a 40-year-old man, and a 30-year-old woman), and four lightly wounded, all in their 40s.
Shaare Zedek received eight of the wounded as well, including a 30-year-old man in serious condition suffering from injuries to his lower body, three in moderate condition (a 50-year-old woman, a young man, and a 16-year-old teenager) and four lightly wounded (a 48-year-old woman, a 45-year-old man, a 12-year-old boy and a 10-year-old boy).
Prof. Avraham Rivkind, the head of the Shock Unit at the Hadassah Ein Karem hospital, said some of the injuries were in line with injuries from past terror bombings in Jerusalem. “There are penetration wounds. We saw in imaging and we pulled out a nail and nuts,” he said.
The bus that exploded was reportedly empty, and the wounded people were in the second bus that caught on fire as a result of the explosion.
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Listen, folks. Citipass train corp. (who run Jerusalem Light Rail) just got through giving bicycles to the local Arab kids, hoping this will stop rock throwing along the railway. (Rocks are dangerous too). With this kind of mindset they won’t stop the intifada. There is no willpower. Only when Jews worldwide insisting the Torah is our sole authority will the madness stop! Derech chaim tochachat mussar. Women here should strengthen tsnius, too, as we are all responsible for each other and clearly the Bible talks about winning through getting rid of ervas davar…that includes foul speech, too.
This is what the Rebbe said will happen if Israel even conducts talks to give land. Right now they are doing what were secret talks to withdraw from Jericho and Ramallah. The Arabs, trying to get a better bargaining position than if they were secretly part of secret negotiations, exposed the plan. Of course, it looks as if Israel is agreeable, by even negotiating, as such, world opinion will be that Israel must remove itself. Netanyahu and company are sensitive to “world opinion” and are in the process of withdrawing troops. Something even Shabak is against. Since the terrorists see… Read more »
It will End when netanyahu STOPS giving into ARAB demands!!!!!!! is he STUPID??????
You know, it’s really sad that you even thought of that. Have a little more Ahavas Yisrael – we are one nation in one heart. In fact, that’s one of the main things that the Rebbe emphasized – to love every single Jew – no matter what- and to influence them to grow in Yiddishkeit. And the word Lubavitch actually means “Brotherly love”. And these separations that are made between fellow Yidden is what ditances us from each other even more, and does not do any good. It’s the opposite of having true Ahavas Yisrael and love for our fellow… Read more »
thats really very rude we are all one yisroel and lubavitch or not lubavitch we all care for eachother
I’m Yisroel have no fear moshiach will be here this year we want moshiach now we don’t want to wait
I hope all of you Bernie supporters will rethink your position tomorrow.
Refuah shleimah to the passengers, to all the cholim of Klal Yisroel
how can you ask that?? we are one
Any Lubavitcher hurt?
refuah shleima to all those on the bus bimheira
when Bibi stops playing politics and lets IAF do the job then this can be stopped forever in just a few days.
A miracle that no one killed. Pls give us the names so we can daven for the injured
Hopefully everyone recovers alive imyh
When this will end?!