World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-07-31
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[0:18] despite dangerous lava and poison gas.
[0:25] >> [music]
[0:25] >> From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:28] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:31] Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight,
[0:34] Elizabeth Vargas.
[0:35] >> Good evening. The violence in the
[0:36] [music] Middle East has claimed American
[0:38] victims. In Jerusalem today, a bomb went
[0:41] off in a cafeteria at Hebrew University
[0:44] where many Americans study abroad. Seven
[0:47] people died. More than 80 people were
[0:50] injured. Three Americans are among the
[0:52] dead. The attack took place at a school
[0:54] that has been an island of relative
[0:56] peace in Jerusalem. It may signal a
[0:58] shift in tactics by the terrorists.
[1:01] ABC's Martha Ratitz reports from the
[1:03] scene.
[1:07] >> They were eating lunch in the crowded
[1:09] cafeteria. Most were students, Arabs,
[1:12] Israelis, Asians, and Americans. Blown
[1:16] apart by a powerful bomb that ripped
[1:18] through the length of the room.
[1:21] nails and screws packed inside the
[1:23] device added to the damage and TO THE
[1:26] PAIN.
[1:27] >> I heard an explosion. There was a you
[1:30] know smell of I guess uh like a like a
[1:33] lot of gunpowder or something like that.
[1:35] That sort of smell. And then people just
[1:36] started running and screaming and
[1:38] whatnot, bleeding.
[1:40] >> Many of the injured were unable to run
[1:43] or to scream or to cry.
[1:47] >> People were in shoc