Suicide bomber kills eight

A SUICIDE bomber targeted off-duty Israeli soldiers at rush hour last night, killing at least eight people, in at attack that the country had been braced for.

More than 30 people were injured, most of them seriously, in the bombing at a bus stop near both the Assaf Harofeh hospital and the Tsrifim army base in the Tel Aviv suburb of Rishon Letzion.

Security officials said there were many soldiers at the bus stop. Ambulances, apparently dispatched from the nearby hospital, quickly lined up at to pick up the wounded.