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Nine Murdered, 55 Wounded in Bus Bombing in North


(Jerusalem Post/Maariv) - A Palestinian homicide bomber blew up a bus packed with soldiers returning to their bases Sunday morning near Mt. Meron in northern Israel, murdering or wounding nearly all of the passengers. As soldiers congregated by the back door as the bus approached their stop, one of the passengers suddenly stood up, approached the soldiers, and set off his explosives. The driver, Ronen Shmuel, 31, had survived a previous bombing of his bus in Jerusalem in 1995 and had moved to the north to escape the danger.
2002-08-05 00:00:00
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