A medium-sized bomb exploded Wednesday afternoon, March 23, at the No. 74 bus stop opposite Binyanei Haooma at the main entrance to Jerusalem from the north, injuring some 68 passers-by and passengers, several seriously. A woman later died of her wounds in hospital. Initial reports of a suicide attack were dispelled when the smoke subsided and the explosion was traced to a bomb planted in a bag attached to a phone booth near a bus stop at the busiest traffic hub of the city. The 74 bus and a number of passing vehicles were damaged by the blast.

The attack, recalling years of deadly Palestinian attacks on Israeli buses, occurred on the same day as Palestinians in Gaza fired Grad missiles at Beersheba.



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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delayed his departure for an official visit to Moscow.

The last major Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem was the massacre at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva seminary on March 6, 2008. Later, Palestinians used tractors for rampages on city routes.

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