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Suicide Bombing Kills 5 in N. Israel

Monday, May 19, 2003
(11:15 AM)
The Associated Press

David Baker, a spokesman in the Israeli prime minister's office, said that the attack ``is another bloody chapter in the Palestinian history of carnage and terror.''

JERUSALEM -- AP
A suicide bomber attacked a northern Israel shopping center Monday, killing at least four other people and wounding 15, police said. It was the fifth anti-Israeli suicide bombing in three days.

The blast went off at 5:14 p.m. at the Shaarei Amakim mall in the northern town of Afula near one of the mall entrances, where shoppers were waiting in line for a security check.

The attacker, who the area police chief said may have been a woman, apparently detonated the explosive after encountering a security guard.

Rescue workers in the town, which lies close to the border with the West Bank, said four people and the bomber were killed and at least 15 people were wounded, some seriously.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The Islamic militant Hamas has carried out for four bombings over the weekend, including a Jerusalem bus attack that killed seven Israelis.
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