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Explosion in central Jerusalem, no injuries immediately reported

JERUSALEM, Dec 05, 2001 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Police reported an explosion in central Jerusalem Wednesday morning, and a police spokesman said it appeared to have been a suicide bombing.
The explosion happened just after 7:35 am (0535 GMT) near a hotel on King David Street, close to the line that separated east and west Jerusalem until 1967.
Police said it was unclear whether anyone had been injured.
Blood covered one part of an outside wall of the David Citadel Hotel, formerly the Hilton, and some body parts were visible on the street. A reporter arriving on the scene did not see any injured people.
Kobi Zariyahu, a Jerusalem police spokesman, said three people had sustained minor injuries.
The hotel is near the Jaffa Gate, one of the main entrances to Jerusalem's Old City.
The explosion followed two days of Israeli military strikes targeting Gaza and the West Bank. Two Palestinians were killed Tuesday, and the strikes hit a security station just yards from an office where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was working.
The strikes were Israel's response to Palestinian suicide attacks that killed 25 people in Jerusalem and the northern port city of Haifa over the weekend and brought the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a new crisis point.
Copyright 2001 Associated Press, All rights reserved

and some body parts were visible on the street

but no reports of injuries. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Blood covered one part of an outside wall of the David Citadel Hotel, formerly the Hilton, and some body parts were visible on the street.

Sounds like a terrorist over there, and over there and pretty much all over the place...I guess it took a lot of guts to do that, just like a bug on the windshield.