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From the Liveblog of
Monday, August 19, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Monday, August 19, 2024
Tel Aviv police chief says terror explosion in city yesterday could have been ‘a tragedy’
The scene of the previous night's bomb blast in southern Tel Aviv, August 19, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
Tel Aviv Police District Commander Peretz Amar says at a press conference that yesterday’s attempted suicide bombing in Tel Aviv could have been much worse.
“If the terrorists had entered [a nearby] synagogue this could have been a horrible tragedy,” said Amar of the explosion yesterday, which killed the suspect carrying the bomb and injured a bystander.
Amar says that police presence in the city has increased but there are no specific warnings of future attacks. The bomb, he says, “was likely built in the West Bank,” and the terror suspect had no history of criminal or terror offenses.
The Tel Aviv police chief says that the explosive device was “big and significant and if it hadn’t blown up outside, it would have wounded many people.”
