Twin blasts in Jerusalem kill one in suspected Palestinian attack - Reuters

JERUSALEM, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded at bus stops on Jerusalem's outskirts on Wednesday, killing a 16-year-old boy and wounding at least 14 other people in what appeared to be an attack by Palestinian militants, Israeli authorities said.

"There has not been such a coordinated attack in Jerusalem for many years," police spokesman Eli Levi told Army Radio.

Separately, Palestinian gunmen late on Tuesday seized the body of an Israeli Druze high school student from a Palestinian hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin following a car crash nearby, the teenager's uncle told Reuters.

The youth's father and some Israeli officials said the gunmen took him off life support before carrying him away.

But families of slain Palestinian militants whose remains are in Israeli custody called for an exchange of corpses.

A diplomat source told Reuters the United Nations was mediating over the release of the teenager's body and Israeli military said it expected that would happen soon.

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