The Palestinian leadership ordered its security forces on Wednesday to hunt down and arrest militants behind a suicide bombing that killed 18 people on a Jerusalem bus.

Palestinian Information Minister Nabil Amr told reporters that Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas would also convene his cabinet later on Wednesday to decide on other security measures against Islamic militants who claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack.

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