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Eugene

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Thu Jan 2, 2014, 08:39 PM Jan 2014

Israel arrests Islamic Jihad suspects over bus attack

Source: Reuters

Israel arrests Islamic Jihad suspects over bus attack

JERUSALEM Thu Jan 2, 2014 4:55pm EST

(Reuters) - Israeli authorities said on Thursday they had arrested four suspected members of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in connection with a bomb attack on a bus in a Tel Aviv suburb last month.

The passengers, alerted to a suspicious bag, evacuated the bus minutes before the bomb went off on December 22. A police explosives expert was lightly wounded in the blast, which was powerful enough to blow out the vehicle's windows.

Israel's Shin Bet security agency said in a statement that four Palestinians from the West Bank town of Bethlehem had been arrested - three suspected of preparing the bomb, one of bringing it to the bus.

One of the first three is a member of the Palestinian police force, said the statement, which came after a court lifted a gag order on the case. Ten other people have been arrested for "infrastructure activities", it said without giving details, and the investigation is continuing.

(Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)


http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/02/us-israel-palestinians-arrests-idUSBREA010XY20140102
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