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From the Liveblog of Thursday, April 21, 2016

Shin Bet: Jerusalem bus attack was suicide bombing

21 April 2016, 5:37 pm

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The Shin Bet security agency confirms the Jerusalem bus attack on Monday was a suicide bombing, as a gag order on the case is partially lifted.

The agency, like police, says several Hamas members from Bethlehem have been arrested in connection with the attack.

The terrorist, Abed al-Hamid Abu Srour, 19, from Beit Jala in the Bethlehem area, was the only fatality. Twenty people were injured, one of them seriously.

Abed al-Hamid Abu Srour seen here in an undated photograph, has been named by Hamas as the person responsible for the April 18 bus bombing in Jerusalem. He died of wounds sustained in the terror attack on April 20, 2016. (Courtesy)

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