MELISSA BLOCK, Host: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: As Sheera Frenkel reports, the attack came amid escalating violence in the region.</s>SHEERA FRENKEL: Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that police had been on a heightened state of alert but did not have specific intelligence about the attack.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, Host: We know that the explosion is a terrorist attack. We've confirmed that. Explosive device itself was placed at the bus stop. It exploded in between the bus stop and that 74 bus. All the people that were injured at the scene were standing in between the bus stop and the bus itself.</s>SHEERA FRENKEL: Fifty-eight-year-old Salfat Avivzia(ph) said she was approaching the bus when the explosion happened.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, Host: (Foreign language spoken)</s>SHEERA FRENKEL: For NPR News, I'm Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem.
A bomb explosion at a bus stop in Jerusalem on Wednesday left one dead and more than 20 wounded. It was the first major terrorist attack in the city in some three years.