Train Driver Wounded by Explosion South of Tel Aviv
Israeli police were not ruling out a technical fault
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JERUSALEM, July 21 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - A train driver
was wounded early Sunday, July 21, by an explosion on the rails near
Yavneh south of Tel Aviv, Israeli police said, adding that it may have
been a deliberate attack.
The
blast occurred as a passenger train traveling from the Tel Aviv
suburbs to the south of Israel was passing, the police said without
giving further details, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Israeli
police said they suspected that the cause of the explosion was a
device placed on the tracks, but that they were not ruling out a
technical fault, Israeli daily newspaper, Ha’aretz,
reported.
It was not initially clear whether the blast was
inside the driver’s cabin or on the tracks.
On
June 30 a bomb went off as a train was passing in the same area,
slightly wounding two people.
Other
blasts took place on June 20 near a railway line at Hadera north of
Tel Aviv and on May 16 on the Tel Aviv-Haifa line shortly after a
passenger train went past.
