More than 100 persons have been detained for questioning since police dragnets began rounding up suspects in a grenade attack that wounded II passengers and the driver of a bus near the central bus terminal here last night.
Most of the injuries were slight, police said. But the attack was the most serious in Tel Aviv since 1975 and was the subject of a briefing by security officials at today’s Cabinet meeting. The public has been alerted to a possible wave of terrorist acts inside Israel coincidental with the current negotiations for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon.
According to the bus driver, who suffered a slight head wound, two hand grenades of Soviet-make were lobbed at his vehicle. He described the assailants as two men standing on a street corner with what looked like stones in their hands. The driver said he accelerated his bus as he approached the corner. One grenade struck the windshield and rolled off, exploding on the street. The other entered the bus through an open window and exploded on a luggage rack just behind the driver’s seat.
Police are concentrating their search on ware-houses and apartments used by Arab day laborers from the occupied territories. The southern exits from the city have been sealed off.
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