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April 18th, 2016 
Awake Goy Initial reports indicated there were 20 casualties. Now Haaretz and Jerusalem Post report 15 people were injured in the blast, with two injured “seriously,” one “moderately,” and five “lightly.” The newspapers cite sources in the Magen David Adom emergency service.
Some of the injured were evacuated to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center. Others were taken to Hadassah Hospital nearby.
The bus was reportedly not carrying any passengers when it exploded, an Israel Police spokesperson said, as cited in the media. The casualties were apparently due to being close to the blast.
“When I arrived at the scene I saw two buses going up in flames and about 10 causalities among them, one who was mortally wounded and another in serious condition,” Mickey Cohen, head of the Jerusalem emergency response service, told Haaretz.
Jerusalem district police say the bus could have been blown up by an explosive device or targeted by a suicide bomber who detonated the device inside the bus, according to news outlet Arutz Sheva.
According to the police, the bus departed from the southern part of the city and arrived at Moshe Baram Street, when apparently an explosion was heard and the bus caught fire.
Suicide attacks in Israeli buses were taking place in early 2000s, becoming a hallmark of the Palestinian uprising. In March 2002, a suicide bomber has exploded inside a bus in Jerusalem, leaving 25 injured. Several months later, another suicide bomb attack on a bus in Northern Israel killed 17 and injured 43, most of them IDF soldiers.
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