Three people were killed and 30 injured in a suicide bomb attack on a a fast food restaurant in a West Bank Jewish settlement. Initial reports indicated that two of the dead were Israeli women, while police were examining the possibility that the third person was a Palestinian suicide bomber who blew himself up in the shopping mall in Karnei Shomron settlement. Five of the injured were in serious condition, while the rest suffered medium to light wounds. The most seriously hurt were airlifted to hospitals across the Green Line boundary in Israel.
Rescue workers said the mall was just filling up with teenagers out for Saturday night when the explosion hit. It was not clear how the Palestinian bomber infiltrated the settlement, although the mall does employ Palestinian workers. |