Yediot Ahronot correspondent Limor Shmuel reported in today’s edition that one of the bombs that exploded last week in Jerusalem also contained chemical poison – apparently rat poisoning. The area around the bomb on Luntz Street was checked after police noted an odd smell.

Investigators found traces of a common poison – apparently rat poison – that can be readily purchased. It is believed that the bomb contained large quantities of the poison but that most of it burned in the explosion.

Police say that this was not a sophisticated attempt at introducing chemicals to an attack and that no one could have been hurt by it.

This morning two teams from the Ministry of the Environment were sent immediately to the site of the Checkpost Junction bombing in Haifa to determine if the bombs contained poisons.

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