breaking news. an explosion at a jerusalem bus station. a bomb going off in or near a bus. kevin flower back on the phone to give us more information. kevin, give us the latest. reporter: what i can tell you is that the police are telling us that this bus the explosion happened outside of the bus and not inside the bus. this is outside bus number 74. this is a public bus. the explosion happened very close to the central bus station. it happened in a very central part of jerusalem on a main highway that leads out of jerusalem in tel aviv. this happened during basically what was rush hour. thousands of commuters leaving and entering the city at this time. police are saying that 20 to 30 people were wounded in this
the explosive device was put inside a bag. it went off, and all those standing in the area of the bus were, in fact, injured and have been treated in hospitals. since then we ve actually heightened security in jerusalem to prevent any further attacks from taking place. the investigation is continuing and the site is being examined. mr. rosenfeld, what can you tell us about the investigation and its immediate focus? have you got any leads? we re working on two levels, on a personal level as well as an intelligence level. our units are continuing to work here in jerusalem. we re still looking for the possibility of a suspect who laid down that bag at the site, and later on this evening, once again, we ll assess the security situation. are there security cameras? in and around jerusalem, there are security cameras. that s part of the ongoing investigation as well. we ll be examining to see if the explosion itself was on security. just one other question i had, kevin flower, our
next to a public bus near the bus station. and as you can imagine there are hundreds of emergency responders, police, ambulance services, israeli military is on site. this happened on a very, very sort of congested main artery within jerusalem. it s the road that leads to the highway going to tel aviv. a lot of traffic here at this time. looking at the scene, it s not clear whether this explosion happened on the bus or not. it seems to have been from what i can tell somewhat limited in scope. this is not a bus that s destroyed in its entirety. it s the front window of the bus seems to have been blown out. not clear whether it happened inside or outside. there are some preliminary reports of one person being killed but i cannot confirm that for certain. what i did see myself on scene is one person being led away on a stretcher.
are telling us, some of them seriously injured, but now have all been transported to local hospitals. there have been no deaths confirmed at this time. apparently this bomb was planted at a bus stop and it went off as a bus passed by a phone booth and stopped to pick up people at the bus stop. we believe that most of the injured were standing at that bus stop waiting for that public bus to come by. yes. this is the first explosion, first attack of this nature in jerusalem since 2004, and as we speak to israeli officials, they say this had been a time when israelis had been feeling relatively safe, so a number of questions surely to be asked about security measures and whether indeed those will be altered in any way following these events. we spoke to the jerusalem policeman and this is what he told us. take a listen. israel and jerusalem have been relatively safe lately and hopefully we will find the
kevin, maybe you won t know this information because it s very early in the investigation and things are still happening but about the bomb itself, i ask you this because usually when we hear about these types of explosion it s a suicide bomber. in this case was it a bomb that was left by someone? reporter: that is not clear. i do not have any information on whether this is a bomb that was planted some place outside a car or planted on the side of this bus or whether it was someone who detonated on their body. i don t have that information yet. i assume that s information that will be coming out in the hours ahead. again, the m.o. on this is not entirely clearly. usually details and the way things have transpired in events like this it s a bit sketchy at first and takes a while for the information to get out and that is the period we re in right now. a lot of chaos.