41.  Police believe a band of teens armed with rocks, knives and other weapons are behind the three attacks.

42.  Police believe the two attacks may be related.

43.  A spokesman for Al Badr, a Pakistan-based militant group, claimed in a telephone call that its members had carried out the two attacks.

44.  A total of eight others were wounded in the other four attacks.

45.  A suspect was never found, and police were investigating whether the two attacks could be linked.

46.  After the two attacks, the gunmen sped away toward the Palestinian refugee camp of Jalazoun.

47.  Alunan, however, did not blame dela Cruz for the three attacks.

48.  Baumel denied that the settler group felt besieged after the two attacks.

49.  But Safir said the two attacks do not appear related.

50.  By late Sunday afternoon there was no official word of any arrests made in connection with the two attacks.