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Blast Kills 11 in Jerusalem
Aired November 21, 2002 - 06:07 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Police in Jerusalem say a 26-year- old Palestinian suicide bomber was behind today's bus attack.
CNN's Jerrold Kessel is at the scene of the bombing.
Jerrold -- bring us up-to-date.
JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Carol, it was just 7:20 in the morning here at the height of the rush hour, when bus No. 20 pulled up to the bus stop behind me, and just as it did so, a loud explosion aboard that bus. A suicide bomber set off the explosives on his body, killing himself, killing 11 people, wounding some 50.
Many people aboard that bus were teenagers heading for high school, and other people heading for work. This is a time of -- a real rush-hour time. Ambulances raced to the scene. They managed to get the wounded off to the hospital.
Two of the people who were killed died as they reached the hospital; the others dead on the spot.
The explosion was so great that it rocked the nearby homes in this low-income West Jerusalem neighborhood, and in one of those homes was Simcha Cohen, and she said it was so loud that she nearly got knocked out of bed. And then, a short while afterwards, as she came down to the scene, she spoke to us here on the scene and told us her emotions.
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SIMCHA COHEN, BOMBING WITNESS: I shake every morning, every time that I go to the city, that I go to the market, that I go -- you know. It's already two years I didn't go to Jaffa Street. To the Old City, I didn't go. It's more than 10 years, because I'm scared! It's not to be ashamed to be scared.
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KESSEL: As Israelis try to come to terms with this latest suicide attack, here on the scene, people gathering, lighting candles, saying prayers. It is life getting back to normal, but along with the normalcy and along with the routine that's being reestablished here, of course, the pain remains, a very deep paint -- this latest suicide attack in (UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right, Jerrold Kessel reporting live for us today.
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Aired November 21, 2002 - 06:07 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Police in Jerusalem say a 26-year- old Palestinian suicide bomber was behind today's bus attack.
CNN's Jerrold Kessel is at the scene of the bombing.
Jerrold -- bring us up-to-date.
JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Carol, it was just 7:20 in the morning here at the height of the rush hour, when bus No. 20 pulled up to the bus stop behind me, and just as it did so, a loud explosion aboard that bus. A suicide bomber set off the explosives on his body, killing himself, killing 11 people, wounding some 50.
Many people aboard that bus were teenagers heading for high school, and other people heading for work. This is a time of -- a real rush-hour time. Ambulances raced to the scene. They managed to get the wounded off to the hospital.
Two of the people who were killed died as they reached the hospital; the others dead on the spot.
The explosion was so great that it rocked the nearby homes in this low-income West Jerusalem neighborhood, and in one of those homes was Simcha Cohen, and she said it was so loud that she nearly got knocked out of bed. And then, a short while afterwards, as she came down to the scene, she spoke to us here on the scene and told us her emotions.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SIMCHA COHEN, BOMBING WITNESS: I shake every morning, every time that I go to the city, that I go to the market, that I go -- you know. It's already two years I didn't go to Jaffa Street. To the Old City, I didn't go. It's more than 10 years, because I'm scared! It's not to be ashamed to be scared.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KESSEL: As Israelis try to come to terms with this latest suicide attack, here on the scene, people gathering, lighting candles, saying prayers. It is life getting back to normal, but along with the normalcy and along with the routine that's being reestablished here, of course, the pain remains, a very deep paint -- this latest suicide attack in (UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right, Jerrold Kessel reporting live for us today.
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