Twenty-six-year-old Adi Jegna noticed a suspicious item that later turned out to be a bomb during her bus ride to Bat Yam, Israel, Thursday evening.
Jegna told the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) in a story published Monday that she became suspicious when she saw there was an unattended white bag on one of the bus seats.
When she peered inside the bag, she saw rolls of toilet paper and a container filled with some yellowish liquid. Jegna then became alarmed when she saw Arabic lettering in the bag.
“Then I understood I could not ignore it,” she told the outlet.
She alerted the bus driver about the suspicious bag and got off at her stop.
At the time, the bus was nearing the end of its route with a few passengers still aboard. The bus driver immediately contacted his superiors and at their instruction went to a nearby bus depot and disembarked as a bomb squad was notified.
The bomb in the bag exploded right after the bus driver departed his vehicle. Jegna heard the sound of the explosion at home, though she did not immediately connect it to the bus she was traveling in. She connected the two events when a friend texted her about a bus bombing.
“I felt incredible,” she told JNS. “I felt that I was the messenger from God to save many people.”
“When I saw the pictures of my destroyed bus, I realized the extent of the disaster that was averted,” she said. “Really thank God I was a good messenger.”
In total, Thursday night, five bombs with timers were planted in five different buses, The Times of Israel reported. Three empty buses, including the one Jegna rode, exploded that night, the BBC reported. No one was hurt.
Each device had 5 kilograms of explosives, but they either went off prematurely or were disabled, The Times of Israel reported. The explosions were supposed to happen Friday morning, according to an unnamed security source.
One bomb reportedly carried the message, “Revenge from Tulkarem,” a city in the West Bank where Israel Defense Forces (IDF) recently operated. Tel Aviv District Police Chief Haim Sargarof told the press that the devices looked to be makeshift and identical. (RELATED:IDF Reveals 10-Month-Old Baby, 4-Year-Old Brother Beaten To Death By Terrorists)
The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, arrested two Jewish Israeli suspects Friday who they claim drove terrorists to Bat Yam ahead of the bombings, The Jerusalem Post reported. The two are also charged with attempted murder.
Following the explosions, Hamas’s Tulkarm Battalion, which is located in the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank, published a statement on social media praising the attack, The Jerusalem Post reported. The group has since disclaimed any responsibility for the incident.
This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
