31.   Deputy Tel Aviv police chief Shachar Ayalon said the incident started after the bus driver became suspicious of a young male passenger who appeared to be an Arab.

32.   Earlier, the captor released four male passengers, one of them injured.

33.   Four male passengers were also released.

34.   He said one male passenger escaped with minor injuries.

35.   However, when the car driver who was with a male passenger, saw the policemen, he continued driving and only pulled over some distance away.

36.   Israeli soldiers checked the identity papers of male passengers and motorists of fighting age and made them lift their shirts to make sure they were not wearing explosives belts.

37.   Okafor, the airport authority official, confirmed that one male passenger had survived.

38.   Okasor, the airport authority official, confirmed that one male passenger had survived.

39.   One male passenger, Tobias Schrirver, escaped with minor injuries and had been hospitalized in Banjul, Naysa said in its statement.

40.   One of those injured, a female American passenger, suffered minor injuries on her mouth, while a male American passenger suffered minor neck injuries, Nagayama said.