Two die in suicide bus bomb

A PALESTINIAN suicide bomber killed a woman and wounded 12 other people by blowing himself up near a bus in Israel yesterday after the driver and passengers stopped him boarding.

Two Palestinians aged 12 and 18 were also killed, during an Israeli army raid in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and hospital sources said.

The suicide bombing, on a highway east of Tel Aviv, and the army raid in Gaza were sure to fuel tensions and cause alarm in the US as it seeks Arab support for a possible war on Iraq.