Man injured in Jerusalem bus explosion dies from wounds

A man who was seriously wounded in a bus explosion in Jerusalem on Monday died from his wounds on Wednesday evening, according to a hospital spokesperson.

The man, injured amid an explosion on a bus on Monday in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Talpiot, was hospitalized in a serious condition at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem on Monday, suffering from burns and injuries to his limbs.

His identity remained unknown by Wednesday, with security forces suspecting he may be the person responsible for the explosion.

Twenty one people were injured on Monday, after a blast erupted on a bus in Jerusalem, with the fire spreading into a nearby bus and another vehicle.

The Israeli police said the blast stemmed from an explosive device placed at the back of the bus, and said it appears to be an attack by Palestinians against Israelis.

However, the police did not officially specify how or who carried the attack.

The attack took place amid a wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians which started in last October, in which 28 Israelis and 200 Palestinians have been killed.

This marks the first explosive used in the wave of violence. Palestinian suicide bombings were common in busses and other public areas in Israel throughout the mid-90s and the early 2000s, at the time of the second armed Palestinian uprising.

No organization has claimed the responsibility for the attack. The last time an explosion took place in an Israeli bus was in 2012 in Tel Aviv, during Israel's military campaign in the Gaza Strip, known as operation Pillar of Defense.

Israeli leaders blame the Palestinian Authority for inciting violence over the wave of unrest, whereas the Palestinians charge it is the result of the 49-year Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem territories, where they wish to establish a Palestinian state. Endit