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CNN's Sheila MacVicar describes bomb scene
NETANYA, Israel (CNN) -- CNN Correspondent Sheila MacVicar was at the scene shortly after a suicide bomber killed himself and at least five others Friday at a shopping mall in the Israeli seaside resort of Netanya. MacVicar offered this description of the aftermath: About two and a half hours ago, a suicide bomber outside this mall on the outer edge of the coastal city of Netanya apparently detonated his bomb ... This is the sixth time since January that a bomb has exploded in this city. The most recent was just about a month ago, when a bomber blew himself up as he tried to get on a city bus. In today's incident, police say the guards at the shopping center were suspicious of the man. He was wearing an oversized blue coat on a very warm day. They prevented him from entering the mall. The police were called. As the police arrived, they saw the man blow up the bomb.
I'm standing about a hundred yards from the front door of the mall. You can see that it goes in, and there's sort of a pyramid or a triangular shape. The bomber was standing underneath and right in front of that entrance when he detonated the bomb. You can see that the facing -- the marble, the glass -- has fallen. Of course, the dead and the wounded have been taken away. There is a small group, but a very loud group, of mostly young Israelis behind me, being kept back behind a police line, chanting, "Death to all Arabs." Netanya is very close to the West Bank. Given the curves of the border that exist, Netanya is probably only about 10 miles from the West Bank. There are many thousands of Palestinians who come in and out every day, most of them going to work, some of them going to school. So it's, in fact, relatively easy -- according to the deputy head of public security, whom I spoke to just a little while ago -- for someone like this 20-year-old bomber to slip in among those people. |
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