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Eight killed as suicide bombers strike crowded Jerusalem cafe.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
JERUSALEM _ Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a crowded cafe Saturday night, and a car bomb went off minutes later as rescue workers arrived to evacuate the casualties. At least eight people were killed, not including the bombers, and more than 170 were wounded.
Eleven of the injured were described as in critical condition, meaning the number of dead could rise.
"It's horrifying. Mostly young people with holes in their bodies," a volunteer in the corpse identification unit told a radio interviewer.
"Aside from the wounded, there were many others we couldn't help."
There was no initial claim of responsibility. But the blasts were a clear challenge to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who had ordered all attacks on Israeli civilians to cease and had just sent security forces to sweep up leaders of the radical Islamic Jihad movement ...
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