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JERUSALEM -- Six people were killed Wednesday evening when a suicide bomber set off a blast at a bus stop in the French Hill neighborhood of northeast Jerusalem, according CNN.
Ambulance services said 40 people were wounded.
According to authorities, border policemen approached a suspect at the crowded bus stop. As they drew near, he set off the blast.
"It is another carnage, another brutal attack on innocent people who were standing, waiting for a bus," said Israeli government spokesman Arye Mekel.
He said the intersection had been the scene of attacks in the past and there is a military presence there around the clock.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack, according to sources in Gaza. The group, a military offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, has been designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.
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