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Three people die in explosion in Israeli mall
A suicide bombing at a shopping mall in a southern Israeli town kills at least three people.
- Agencies
- Published: 13:34 February 4, 2008
- Image Credit: Reuters
- Israeli soldiers patrol Al Ghajar village. A Lebanese man was killed on Sunday in south Lebanon when Israeli forces opened fire from northern Israel.
Occupied Jerusalem: A suicide bomber attacked a shopping mall in the southern Israeli town of Dimona on Monday, killing at least three people.
Police classified the attack as a "terrorist incident" that also wounded 10 others.
Israeli police said a Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and at least one person and that a second bomber was shot dead before he could detonate his explosives belt.
"We heard a big explosion, and people began running," a shopowner who gave her name as Ravital told reporters. "I saw pieces of flesh flying in the air."
The Zaka emergency service said the body of a "terrorist" and an explosives belt were found at the scene in the desert town where Israel's top-secret nuclear reactor is located.
Dimona, which lies in the southern Negev desert, is the site of Israel's top-secret nuclear reactor.
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