Four children die as bomb claims 11

FOUR schoolchildren were among 11 Israeli's killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on a packed bus in Jerusalem yesterday.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon immediately convened his security cabinet to plan the military response.

The 23-year-old from Bethlehem boarded the bus-full of children and soldiers wearing a bomb belt during morning rush hour. The four children who died were aged between eight and 16.