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We do indeed have him. mr. rosenfeld, thank you so much for joining us. i was just saying that undoubtedly an investigation will be under way or at least start shortly. do we have any information that you can share with us about the device and its exact location, where it was placed? >> all i can confirm is this is the first terrorist attack that took place in jerusalem in the last four years. an explosive device exploded at the bus stop itself. there was a bag that laid at the bus stop and it exploded, causing 24 people to be injured, three seriously, four moderately, all the rest light. amaz...

Moderate to light. ambulances have taken the patients to the hospitals within a few minutes. and all blood services, they're getting an additional shipment of blood to the four hospitals in jerusalem that received the casualties. >> i should just say here, do you have a sense as to what caused some of these injuries? is it flying glass, is it just proximity to the glass? >> it's a combination of internal injuries, some of them caused by the blast and others caused by shrapnel that was part of the explosive device. patients were receiving internal and external injuries, some of them to vital or...

Aids and the fight against that. an explosion going off near public bus number 74 in jerusalem. we understand 20 to 30 people have been injured. don't know who planted the bomb. nobody has taken responsibility for it yet, and authorities are now checking for secondary bombs around that explosion. >> there has been a mass reaction to the scene, scores of people injured at this stage. we don't have any reports of death, but we do have our correspondent on the scene, kevin flower, who will bring us up to date shortly to bring us how this was received in israel. this is the first attack in israe...

Least one person being taken from the scene on a stretcher. but as is the case here in israel, the evacuation of wounded happened very quickly, and israel is a society that is somewhat experienced in dealing with these blasts, so lots of wounded. scores of them were brought to hospitals in fairly quick order, which is certainly, probably -- giving us a situation where there are no casualties at this point, no one killed at this point, one critically injured. something police are probably going to be looking at going guard is this explosive device. they say it was on or near a telephone booth a...

At this point in time, what we are being told is it was a bomb that was placed on a phone booth. it wasn't actually placed in a bus itself, but when that bomb did explode, it was at a time when a bus was going by and scores of people are now injured. >> but amazingly enough, no one has died and that's perhaps the best news coming out of all of this. >> absolutely. there has not been an explosion and attack of this nature with injuries since 2004 in jerusalem, so this attack comes at a time when israelis has been feeling relatively safe, and when we speak to people on the ground in jerusalem to...