MIDDLE EAST: Powerful blast in Haifa

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Att.Editors: The following item is from the Qatar News Agency (QNA)

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, Mar 5 2003 (IPS) - A powerful explosion has just ripped an Israeli vehicle apart in the northern city of Haifa, northern occupied Palestine, on Wednesday, killing and wounding a big number of persons, Al Jazeerah TV satellite channel broadcast in an urgent dispatch from the Palestinian lands.

Meanwhile news reports and first aid officials said the blast killed so far eight people and wounded 30.

The bus was traveling along the city’s main Moriah Boulevard, on the top of Mount Carmel, when the blast occurred.

The last bombing inside Israel took place on January 6 this year, when two suicide bombers killed themselves and 23 people in south Tel Aviv.