Explosions hit two bus stops in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 14, in unclaimed attacks cheered by Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The first bombings to hit Jerusalem since 2016, according to security officials, targeted an area frequented by ultra-Orthodox Jews at the city’s western exit.
A 16-year-old boy was killed and 11 other people were wounded in the first blast, before a second blast hit a stop nearby, wounding three people, hospitals treating the casualties said.
An AFP photographer said the blast ripped a hole through a metal fence behind the bus stop, with an electric scooter and a hat lying on the ground. He heard the second blast, which tore through the side of a bus.
The twin blasts struck half an hour apart, police said. Explosives experts were at the scene with police and forensic scientists collecting evidence.
Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek hospital said a man had died of his wounds from the first explosion.
Doctors were treating another person in critical condition, two seriously wounded and two lightly wounded.
Hadassah medical centre said it was treating six people injured in the first blast and another three people wounded in the second.
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