An explosion at the Jerusalem bus station was at first thought to be a terror attack, but it turned out to be a tire blow-out on a bus, according to the Jerusalem Post. Emergency personnel who were called to the scene soon rushed back to the site of the deadly bombing at a pizza shop elsewhere in Jerusalem.
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