Jerusalem, Israel - Palestinian Suicide Bomber Caught

Jerusalem, Israel - A suicide bombing in downtown Jerusalem was thwarted, after a 25-year-old Palestinian was caught carrying a bomb in a bag on a main city thoroughfare.

A male suspect, from the West Bank, was stopped by police on the city's Jaffa Road near the Jaffa Gate for a routine security check, when an estimated of five kilograms of explosives were found in his bag, he was arrested on the scene.
The suspect confessed that he was carrying a bomb and said that he came to the area to blow himself up in a suicide bombing.

The streets in the area were quickly closed off to traffic, as police sappers neutralized the explosives on the scene.
Police choppers were hovering in the air, in an apparent effort to track any accomplices the suspect may have had as well as to prevent any further attacks.