Post date: Jan 10, 2013 12:57:13 PM
Car blast in Tel Aviv injures several people, police suspect possible criminal motive, medics.
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (JANUARY 10, 2013) (CH 2) - A car exploded near a bus in Tel Aviv on Thursday (January 10), injuring several people in what police suspect was an attempt to kill an alleged criminal kingpin.
Israel Radio said the car belonged to the head of an alleged organised crime family.The ambulance service said several people were injured in the blast on Menachem Begin Street, a main thoroughfare.
One witness told Israel Radio: "There was a fire and I heard an explosion," while police vehicle sirens screamed in the background.
Ynet news Web site quoted witnesses as saying they saw an assailant on a motorcycle planting an explosive on the vehicle.
The last bombing in Tel Aviv, Israel's business hub, wounded 15 people on Nov. 21, during an eight-day military campaign against Hamas Islamist militants in the Gaza Strip. An Israeli Arab citizen was charged in court with carrying out that attack on Hamas' behalf.