Three dead after West Bank gas station blast

Three people have been killed in an explosion at a gas station in central Israel near the border with the West Bank.

The blast, which has been described as very powerful, took place between the Israeli city of Kfar Sava and the Palestinian city of Qalqilya.

One of the dead was a suicide bomber, said Nissim Gvili, the local fire-fighting chief.

The latest explosion took place in the petrol station car park, some distance from the pumps, the fire chief said.

The explosion comes one day after a suicide bomber blew himself up in Jerusalem, injuring scores of passengers on a bus.

A few minutes before the blast a bomb was discovered and defused in the open-air market in the coastal resort of Netanya, where four people, including a Palestinian suicide bomber, were killed in an explosion about two weeks ago.