26 People Injured in Suicide Bombing in Tel Aviv

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26 People Injured in Suicide Bombing in Tel Aviv

Twenty-six people were injured, three of them seriously, in a suicide bombing Friday near an old central bus station in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv,Israel Radio reported.

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Twenty-six people were injured, three of them seriously, in a suicide bombing Friday near an old central bus station in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv,Israel Radio reported.

According to police reports, the bomber, carrying an explosive device on his body, blew himself up at the corner of Neve Sha'anan and Petah Tikva streets in an busy area in southern Tel Aviv. No organization has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.

An initial police report had suspected that the bombing attack was carried out by a motorcyclist, whose scooter went up in flames near the site of the explosion.

Among the injured people in the attack, three of them were seriously injured, one moderately and the rest lightly wounded, according to the radio.

Israeli police arrested two Palestinians, residents of the West Bank cities of Nablus and Hebron who are suspected of involvement in the attack.

The police also found a Kalashnikov rifle near the location of the explosion and six cartridges, which were probably intended to be used at the same time of the explosion.

The attack took place in a busy pedestrian mall near the old central bus station in southern Tel Aviv, which is highly populatedwith foreign workers.

Tel Aviv District Police Commander Yossi Sedbon told Channel TwoTV that police forces were searching the area for additional explosive devices, adding that serious warnings on terror attacks inside Israel were received in the past few days.

Police has been put on high alert in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv as wellas other areas in central Israel and other parts of the country since receiving warnings of terror attacks.

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