A motorist rammed into pedestrians on a crowded Jerusalem street and then got out of his vehicle to attack people with a metal bar on Wednesday in what Israeli police said was a deliberate Palestinian attack. An ambulance service spokesman said eight people were injured by the driver, two of them critically. Police shot dead the suspect. It was the second such incident in two weeks in the holy city, the scene of daily Palestinian protests amid tensions over a sacred compound revered by both Muslims and Jews. Police said the driver ran down pedestrians on a main road that straddles predominantly Arab east Jerusalem and an adjacent ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood. The vehicle then continued for another 500 metres before stopping at a junction, where the driver emerged and began striking at people with a metal pipe. “I can confirm that this is a terrorist attack,” said Micky Rosenfeld, foreign press spokesman for the Israeli police. On 22 October, a Palestinian motorist drove through a nearby train station, killing two people before he was shot dead by Israeli police. Police said the driver in Wednesday’s incident was apparently a Palestinian from east Jerusalem.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 11:51:22 +0000
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