REUTERS-A truck driven by a Palestinian rammed into pedestrians on a popular
promenade in Jerusalem on Sunday killing four people, according to Israeli
police who called it a deliberate attack.
"It is a terrorist attack, a ramming attack," a police
spokeswoman said on Israel Radio.
Police said the dead, three women and one man, were all in their
twenties.
An Israeli bus driver who witnessed the incident said on the radio the
truck plowed into a group of soldiers, and that they fired on the driver, who
reversed direction and ran over them again.
"They shot him, until they neutralized him," said the bus
driver, who gave his name only as Moshe. Israeli TV stations said the driver
was killed, and footage showed bullet holes in the truck's windscreen.
Israeli television stations said at least four people were killed and
that some 15 wounded were strewn on the street at the Armon Hanatziv promenade
overlooking the walled Old City of Jerusalem.
Israel Radio reported the driver was a Palestinian but did not
immediately give his name.
A wave of Palestinian street attacks, including vehicle rammings, has
largely slowed but not stopped completely since it began in October 2015.
REUTERS
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