The police today (Thursday) revealed that a recent investigation was conducted against Arab teenagers suspected of placing an improvised explosive device under the light rail in northern Jerusalem.
Following the investigation, police detained a group of suspects aged 15 and 16 from East Jerusalem. The investigation revealed that the four, some of whom banded together, trained and assembled an explosive device (improvised pipe bomb) and recorded the act.
They threw rocks and a bomb at the train
In recent months, one of the terrorists threw a pipe bomb at the light rail and some of the others threw rocks at the train before fleeing the scene. Police officers who were called to the scene following a report of stone throwing and fireworks shooting, revealed that it was in fact an improvised pipe bomb that exploded after being thrown at the train.
The investigators of the Jerusalem Police Department revealed another case in which one of the suspects placed an improvised pipe bomb under the train when it arrived at the platform, but the bomb did not explode. The suspect fled the scene. In both cases, there were no casualties among the train passengers and bystanders, and minor damage was caused to the train.
