**UPDATE: Jerusalem now reporting 50 injured and 1 dead**
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Jerusalem Post reports on a terrorist attack in Jerusalem today:
Bomb inside bag explodes next to Egged bus 74 opposite Binyanei Ha’uma in central Jerusalem; 3 seriously injured, 5 in moderate condition.
One woman died and 50 were injured after an explosion took place at a bus station in central Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon.
An explosion took place near a bus in central Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon.
Police said that a bomb exploded outside Egged bus number 74 at a station opposite the Jerusalem Conference Center (Binyanei Ha’uma) in the center of town.
Fifty people were injured in the attack. Three were injured seriously from the explosion itself, four moderately from shrapnel packed into the explosive device and the remainder were in moderate to light condition.
The 50 injured were taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem, Hadassah Mount Scopus, Bikur Holim and Shaare Tzedek hospitals. All hospitals in the area were opened to receive casualties. One woman, aged 59, died from injuries sustained in the blast.
Police said that this was the first terrorist attack in four years that involved an explosion. At the moment, police were looking for one specific person who left the bag that contained the bomb.
There were reports that witnesses were able to identify the man who left the bag and police were searching for him.
The video below shows the aftermath of the bomb blast including closeups of the bus:
From the YouTube description:
**UPDATE** 10:08 AM
Israeli police are blaming Palestinian militants for a bomb attack at a crowded bus stop in central Jerusalem.Yitzhak Aharonovich, Israel’s minister of public security, says militants planted the one-kilogram (2-pound) device in a bag on the sidewalk.
Authorities say about 25 people were wounded, several critically, in Wednesday’s attack.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack, the first bombing in Jerusalem in years.
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UPDATE: Fox News reports on the bombing:
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