At least 15 people have been wounded and many feared dead as a truck plowed into a group of soldiers in Jerusalem. The truck driver was shot dead by police, which described the incident as a “terrorist attack.”
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said Sunday the truck veered off course as it struck a group of soldiers getting off a bus in eastern Jerusalem.
The Reuters news agency quoted the police sources as saying that four people – three women and one man, all in their 20s – were killed in the suspected attack. At least 15 people were injured as a result of the ramming.
Samri said the “attacker” has been “neutralized.”
Israel Radio reported the driver was a Palestinian but did not disclose his identity.
The incident took place on a popular public place overlooking the walled Old City of Jerusalem.
“It is a terrorist attack, a ramming attack,” Samri told an Israeli radio, which said the bodies of the soldiers were “strewn on the street.”
The Jerusalem ramming comes just weeks after 12 people died in a truck attack in Berlin.
Palestinian attackers have killed 36 Israelis and two US tourists in a series of stabbings since last year. During the time, Israeli security forces have killed 229 Palestinians, who, according to the officials were terrorists.
Source: Many feared dead as truck rams into Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem | News | DW.COM | 08.01.2017
