2 More Israelis Dead in Stabbing Attacks
BLITZER: Breaking news out of the Middle East right now. Some very disturbing images as two more Israelis are dead in new stabbing attacks, the latest in a spiraling upsurge of violence. Let's go live to our senior international correspondent, Nic Robertson. He's joining us from Jerusalem. What is the latest, Nic?</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, the very latest is that two people involved in these attacks today have been killed. The first attack happening to -- happening in Tel Aviv around the middle of the day.</s>ROBERTSON (voice-over): A young Israeli soldier is lifted aboard a stretcher. It is noon in downtown Tel Aviv. He was waiting for a bus when he was stabbed. This paramedic, one of the first responders. (on camera): One stab wound or multiple stab wounds?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He had few in the legs and in the upper part of the body.</s>ROBERTSON (voice-over): Not long after, this video appears on YouTube. The attacker, an Arab, still holding a knife, appears to cut his own wrist. The security services move to arrest him. (</s>On camera): What has security services here concerned is the question, is this stabbing an isolated incident or is it part of a growing trend of attacks that transport hubs over the past few weeks? (</s>Voice-over): Within hours, this in the West Bank at sunset, a van driver deliberately drives into someone at a bus stop, knocks them down, all caught on security camera video. Seconds later, the van driver comes back, finds the person he knocked down, starts stabbing them. Then he crosses the road, chases then attacks another victim before he is interrupted. A third man appears to spray something on the attacker. He crosses the road again and returns to his first victim. Police say three people were injured in this stabbing attack. One of them a 24-year-old woman, dying at the scene. The attacker, whom police describe as a terrorist, shot at the scene by a guard. Hours later, the radical Islamist group, Islamic Jihad, praises both the West Bank and Tel Aviv attackers. Tensions and concerns here are rising.</s>ROBERTSON: And what we're hearing now from the prime minister's office, Prime Minister Netanyahu, is that there will be an increase in security. And there's also call for an acceleration in the destruction of the homes, the houses of people who perpetrate these terrorists, who perpetrate these attacks -- Wolf.</s>BLITZER: Nic Robertson in Jerusalem, clearly an escalating situation over there. Thanks very much. Up next, we have new details on some DNA evidence that could link the University of Virginia kidnapping suspect to yet another crime. Also ahead, high stakes diplomacy grounded. We have new information about the jet breakdown that delayed a secret U.S. mission to North Korea.