In what appears to be a crime-related explosion, one person was killed and two injured when an explosive device went off close to noon near a bus stop at the intersection of Derech Namir and Yehuda Maccabi Street in Tel Aviv.

The area has been closed down following the explosion. One of the injured is a 13-year-old boy who was standing at the bus stop when a vehicle blew up. He was injured as a result of the magnitude of the blast.

The second victim was traveling in a vehicle behind the vehicle that blew up. Police shortly following the deadly explosion believe it is crime family related, perhaps a reckoning of accounts between underworld families.

According to multiple media reports, the senior underworld figure who was killed in Monday’s car bombing in Tel Aviv is mob kingpin Yaakov Alperon.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)