Report: New York police inspect buses after blast near Tel Aviv
The NYPD has begun conducting random inspections on buses after a suspected terror attack on a bus in Israel, CBS New York reported Sunday.
According to the report, the inspections were being conducted "out of an abundance of caution."
On Sunday, a bomb exploded in Bat Yam, a city south of Tel Aviv. After having cited a suspicious bag on the bus, a passenger had alerted the driver, who parked the vehicle and ordered all passengers to disembark. Shortly thereafter, after a police bomb squad arrived at the site and began inspecting the suspicious object. The bomb then exploded, shattering all the bus windows and charring the sides of the vehicle.
No one was injured in the blast. The expert inspecting the explosive at the time also escaped without injury.
It is not yet clear who planted the bomb, though Israeli police and Shin Bet believe that it was a Palestinian terrorist attack, and are treating it as such. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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