Bank Hapoalim building
JERUSALEM, May 10, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- An explosion was heard in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva early Friday, and Israel Radio reported there were casualties.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blast, which the radio said occurred near a bank branch in the desert city 40 miles south of Jerusalem.
Israel Radio quoted police in Beersheva as saying the explosion was a terrorist attack near the Bank Hapoalim building. One suspect was captured and another escaped.
An ambulance that arrived at the scene reported three people were lightly injured, said Yerucham Mandola, a spokesman for the Israeli national ambulance service, Magen David Adom.
A suicide bombing Tuesday, carried out by the militant Palestinian group Hamas, left 15 Israelis dead in the Israeli city of Rishon Letzion.
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