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From the Liveblog of
Monday, August 19, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Monday, August 19, 2024
Police “99%” sure that Tel Aviv bomb blast was attempted terror attack
Ayalon District Police Commander Haim Bublil tells Kan radio that he is “99%” sure that a bomb blast that killed a man in Tel Aviv last night was an attempted terror attack.
“It may be that the terrorist planned to go to a synagogue nearby or maybe a shopping center. We can’t understand yet why it exploded at that point,” he says.
The man was carrying the bomb in a bag on his back while walking down Lehi Road in the city’s south when it went off.
The man, in his fifties, was killed as a result of the explosion. A passerby on an electric scooter in his thirties was moderately wounded. Paramedics declared the man who’d been carrying the bomb dead at the scene and evacuated the injured man to hospital.
