Jerusalem bombings: Teenager killed in rare twin attacks at bus stops - BBC

A teenage lad has been killed and 14 different radical person been wounded successful 2 suspected weaponry attacks astatine autobus stops successful Jerusalem, Israeli constabulary say.

The explosions happened astatine 2 engaged areas connected the outskirts of the metropolis arsenic radical were heading to work.

The lad who died was among 12 radical wounded by the archetypal blast. Three others were wounded by the second.

Israel's interior information curate said astatine 1 country that this was "an onslaught we haven't seen successful a agelong time".

This twelvemonth has seen a spate of deadly weapon and weapon attacks targeting Israelis, triggering waves of Israeli subject raids successful Palestinian cities successful the occupied West Bank. But the usage of explosives successful Jerusalem would beryllium the astir important onslaught of its benignant successful years.

The archetypal detonation happened successful Givat Shaul, adjacent to the main entranceway to the city, astatine astir 07:05 (05:00 GMT) connected Wednesday. About 30 minutes later, determination was a 2nd blast successful Ramot Junction, different entranceway to the city.

Videos from 1 country showed radical moving and debris scattered crossed the street.

Israeli constabulary said an archetypal probe suggested that some blasts were caused by explosive devices placed astatine the scenes and that officers suspected this was a "combined panic attack".

The Haaretz paper cited a constabulary root arsenic saying that some devices contained nails and were apt to person been detonated remotely.

"It's a precise hard morning," Israeli Internal Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev told reporters.

"There's a precocious probability that there's a transportation betwixt the attacks. These are not copycats. I judge that we'll enactment our manus connected each involved."

Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai called connected the nationalist to interaction the exigency services if they saw thing retired of the ordinary.

Outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid was convening a peculiar gathering with the country's information chiefs, Israeli media reported.

It comes arsenic Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud enactment proceed negotiations to signifier a caller conjugation authorities with allied far-right and spiritual parties. They won a bulk successful parliament successful this month's wide election.

Ultra-nationalist Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) enactment person Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is acceptable to go interior information curate and oversee the constabulary force, visited the country of the archetypal detonation and declared that Israel had to instrumentality enactment to deter Palestinian attacks.

"Even if it's successful the West Bank, laic siege to them and spell from location to location successful hunt of guns and reconstruct our deterrence power," helium said.

The US embassy successful Israel tweeted that it condemned "in strongest imaginable presumption today's violent attacks connected nationalist locations successful Jerusalem and offers sincere condolences to the victims and their loved ones".

"Terrorism is simply a dead-end that accomplishes perfectly nothing," it added.

The UK ambassador to Israel said helium was "shocked by the violent attacks".