Car explosion injures 2 in Tel Aviv

A car exploded Saturday evening in south Tel Aviv, wounding two brothers aboard, in what appears to be a criminal infighting, police sources told Xinhua. The victims, one injured seriously, were known to the police and had criminal records, the sources said. The two were sent to the Ichilov hospital in central Tel Aviv and the police's explosive specialists arrived and examined the scene. "We have sealed the area and we are currently performing preliminary investigation procedures to look into the circumstances of this incident," police spokesperson Mickey Rosenfeld told Xinhua. He added that the bomb which exploded was attached to the vehicle the two wounded were driving in. "I heard a loud explosion," Manny Gershovitz, a paramedic living nearby the scene told the Ynet news website. "When I saw the car it was still on fire, the car doors flew far due to the volume of the explosion," he added. "I gave initial treatment until the paramedics arrived at the scene," he concluded. In December seven people were lightly wounded in an attempt on the life of Nissim Alperon, the patron of one of Israel's biggest crime families, in central Tel Aviv. He has survived eight previous attempts on his life, according to local media reports.