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| Driver rams into pedestrians in east Jerusalem | |
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| 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. |