Fifteen persons are confirmed dead according to police reports and 46 are wounded in a bus bombing in Israel\'s third largest city Haifa. Previous counts of fatalities included the suicide terrorist. Of the 46, 2 are in critical condition and 6 are seriously wounded.
A bomb exploded on a No. 16 bus according to Egged Bus Company spokesman Ron Ratner. Ratner says that the bus left Haifa\'s N’vei Sha’anan neighborhood at about 12:00 PM, traveling via Halissa towards the Hadar neighborhood. A bomb blew up in the Halissa neighborhood at the intersection of Yad L’Banim and HaGiborim Streets and appears to have involved a second bus.
Police are reporting one of the buses plummeted about 100 meters (yards) following the blast. It is unknown if the explosion was from a suicide bomber or a bomb was placed on the bus. Police are confirming the damage is devastating, attesting to the size of the explosive device.
EMS officials report at this time all the wounded have been transported from the scene. Most of the wounded were transported to the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, but some were taken to the Carmel and Bnei Tzion Hospitals.
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A bomb exploded on a No. 16 bus according to Egged Bus Company spokesman Ron Ratner. Ratner says that the bus left Haifa\'s N’vei Sha’anan neighborhood at about 12:00 PM, traveling via Halissa towards the Hadar neighborhood. A bomb blew up in the Halissa neighborhood at the intersection of Yad L’Banim and HaGiborim Streets and appears to have involved a second bus.
Police are reporting one of the buses plummeted about 100 meters (yards) following the blast. It is unknown if the explosion was from a suicide bomber or a bomb was placed on the bus. Police are confirming the damage is devastating, attesting to the size of the explosive device.
EMS officials report at this time all the wounded have been transported from the scene. Most of the wounded were transported to the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, but some were taken to the Carmel and Bnei Tzion Hospitals.
For details of the two other terrorist attacks last night and today, see other stories on the IsraelNationalNews.com homepage . For continual news coverage, monitor the \"Latest News\" section.