Three dead, dozens hurt in Jerusalem bomb

A Palestinian suicide bombing in a west Jerusalem supermarket left three dead, including the female bomber, and around 16 injured…

A Palestinian suicide bombing in a west Jerusalem supermarket left three dead, including the female bomber, and around 16 injured.

One witness said the bomber was a woman who ran past security guards and into the supermarket, where she blew herself up.

Israeli television said a security guard had spotted a woman and tried to chase her out of the supermarket.

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, claimed responsibility on Hezbollah's television station.

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The blast occurred at a mall in Kiryat Yovel, a working class Jewish neighbourhood in southeastern part of the city, police reported.

AFP