Construction vehicle overturns Jerusalem bus in suspected attack,two dead
- 10 years ago
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A construction vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian and overturned a bus on a main street in Jerusalem on Monday (August 4) in what police qualified as a "terrorist attack". The incident ended when policemen shot dead the driver of the yellow excavator.
There were no passengers on the bus, in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of the city. Surveillance video broadcast on Israeli television showed the excavator's mechanical arm tearing into the side of the bus as it lay on the sidewalk.
Israeli media said the driver of the digger was a Palestinian from East Jerusalem.
Jerusalem police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the tractor first hit and seriously injured one person. That person later died. The police then shot dead the excavator's driver.
"The tractor made his way down the main road and hit the bus, flipped the bus over. And at this moment in time what we know from the police officers that arrived at the scene, opene
A construction vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian and overturned a bus on a main street in Jerusalem on Monday (August 4) in what police qualified as a "terrorist attack". The incident ended when policemen shot dead the driver of the yellow excavator.
There were no passengers on the bus, in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of the city. Surveillance video broadcast on Israeli television showed the excavator's mechanical arm tearing into the side of the bus as it lay on the sidewalk.
Israeli media said the driver of the digger was a Palestinian from East Jerusalem.
Jerusalem police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the tractor first hit and seriously injured one person. That person later died. The police then shot dead the excavator's driver.
"The tractor made his way down the main road and hit the bus, flipped the bus over. And at this moment in time what we know from the police officers that arrived at the scene, opene