Seven people injured after motorist drives into crowded Jerusalem bus stop
Seven people injured including two children after motorist drives into crowded Jerusalem bus stop in suspected terror attack
- Attack happened in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighbourhood at 1.30pm local time
- Emergency responders received call about vehicle hitting several pedestrians
At least six people were injured after a motorist drove into a crowded Jerusalem bus stop in a suspected terror attack.
A suspected assailant rammed his car into several pedestrians in east Jerusalem on Friday, wounding at least six people, Israeli paramedics said, the latest incident as violence rises in the contested capital.
The alleged car-ramming took place at a bus stop in Ramot, a Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem. Tensions have soared in the Israeli-annexed eastern half of the city, following a Palestinian shooting attack on Jan. 27 that killed seven people in the deadliest attack in Jerusalem in over a decade.
The Israeli rescue service said its medics were treating six wounded, including two children in critical condition undergoing CPR. It said two victims were unconscious and in serious condition, while the other two were in moderate condition.
Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its undivided capital, while the Palestinians seek east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as a capital of their future state.
United Hatzalah volunteers responded to an attack in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem on Friday around 1.30pm local time, February 12, according to a spokesperson.
The volunteer organisation reports that seven pedestrians including two children were injured when a vehicle drove into a bus stop near Samuel’s Tomb, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Emergency responders received a call on the 101 hotline at 1:27pm about a vehicle hitting several pedestrians at a bus stop on the corner of Golda Meir Avenue and Binyamin Mintz in Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood.