Jerusalem, Oct 10: A suicide bomber blew himself up at a bus stop east of Tel Aviv today, killing himself and wounding five bystanders, one of them seriously, police and paramedics said. The bomber had tried to board the bus through the back door, but aroused the suspicion of passengers and the driver, said David Krause, the deputy police chief of Tel Aviv.
The driver closed the back door and got off the bus, along with two soldiers, to question the suspect, police said.
The driver asked passengers waiting at the bus stop to move back, and as he approached the suspect, the bomber blew himself up, police said.

Two of the soldiers were apparently among the wounded. A spokesman of the Dan bus company said many of the passengers were soldiers.

The blast went off on a major highway near Bnei Brak, a suburb of Tel Aviv. Bureau Report