Five injured in Palestine blast

Five pupils were injured today in an explosion at a Palestinian school in the West Bank.

Almost all the 380 students were in class at the time, headmaster Yousef Abed Rabbo said. He blamed militant Israelis for the blast.

Witnesses at the Ziff secondary school in Hebron said police later fired shots at an object, triggering three explosions.

But police spokesman Rafi Yaffe could not confirm the claims that officers blew up any other devices. Rabbo said the blast went off near a water cooler in the school yard.

In March, a bomb went off in another Palestinian school in east Jerusalem, injuring a teacher and four children. Jewish militants claimed responsibility for that attack.