Suicide bomber kills 1, wounds 14 in Israel
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The bombing occurred at a newly constructed train station.
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A suicide bomber killed an Israeli security guard and injured 14 other people when he blew himself up at the entrance to a train station in Kfar Saba. CNN's Jerrold Kessel reports (April 24)
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KFAR SABA, Israel (CNN) -- A Palestinian teenager blew himself up outside Kfar Saba's new train station early Thursday, killing an Israeli security guard who prevented him from entering the station, and injuring 14 other people -- two seriously, according to Israeli police and medical relief services.
Israeli police said a man approached the newly constructed station on Kfar Saba's outskirts, about 10 miles northeast of Tel Aviv near the Israel-West Bank border.
When stopped by the security guard at the station's entrance around 7:15 a.m. (12:15 a.m. EDT), he blew himself up.
Israeli police said the man was from the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank, and they are searching for accomplices who may have driven him to the station.
The suicide bombing came hours after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat accepted an Egyptian-brokered deal, allowing Abu Mazen to assume the post of Palestinian prime minister, a post he said he would not accept without clear powers.
Arafat had sharply disagreed with Abu Mazen's plan to crack down on the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant offshoot of Arafat's Fatah movement that has claimed responsibility for a string of suicide bombings in Israel.
-- From CNN Correspondent Jerrold Kessel
