JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An explosion tore through an Israeli bus in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing several people and wounding dozens of others, rescue services said.
Army Radio said it appears a suicide bomber blew up on the number 14 bus near the Inbal Hotel on Jabotinsky Street during the morning rush hour.
"There are many casualties -- about 30 -- some of them are dead," ambulance service spokesman Avi Zohar told Army Radio.
A spokesman for the fire brigade said: "There are a number of dead."
Ambulances raced to the scene, near the Inbal Hotel.
A Palestinian suicide bomber last struck in Jerusalem on January 29, killing 11 people on a bus.
Sat Feb 21,10:59 PM ET
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro - An explosion outside a sports arena in Kosovo wounded a government minister and four associates as they left a basketball game on Saturday, police said.
Environment minister Ethem Ceku and the other victims were taken to a nearby hospital, but their conditions were not life-threatening, hospital officials said.
The blast occurred at 10 p.m. in Pec, some 50 miles west of Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. Police said a car had exploded, but it was unclear whether it was the vehicle the minister was in. Ceku is a member of an ethnic Albanian party in the province.
Kosovo is legally part of Serbia-Montenegro — the union that replaced Yugoslavia last year — but has been administered by the United Nations and NATO since mid-1999, after an air war ended a crackdown by Serb forces on ethnic Albanians.
The province remains tense, and there is sporadic ethnic violence.
In December, a Serb mob hurled stones and bricks at Kosovo's ethnic Albanian prime minister and an international delegation as they had lunch in the northern town of Kosovska Mitrovica.
In November, Serb refugees visiting their prewar homes in the village of Musutiste were attacked by ethnic Albanians opposed to the visit.