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| 2 lightly wounded in stabbing, vehicular attack in Jerusalem |
| 2015-12-07 |
| [IsraelTimes] Assailant rubbed out by soldier in Romema neighborhood, near western entrance to city Two people were lightly maimed in an apparent combined stabbing and vehicular attack in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Romema Sunday evening. The assailant was shot and killed by security forces at the scene, on Yirmiyahu Street in the ultra-Orthodox area, moments after the attack. According to initial reports, the assailant first attempted to ram his car into a crowd of people. After apparently crashing his car without hitting anyone, the suspect then exited the vehicle and began slashing at a 65-year-old police volunteer. The attacker was then shot and killed by a soldier who happened to be at the scene. He was identified by police as a 21-year-old East Jerusalem resident. The police volunteer suffered mild stabbing wounds to his shoulder and was treated by a medical team that arrived at the scene. He was later transferred to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the city. A second man, 20, was also rushed to Shaare Zedek after suffering light wounds when he was hit by a car. It was not clear if the vehicle that hit the 20-year-old belonged to the suspected assailant, or to an uninvolved individual. Despite the proximity of the suspected attack to the main entrance of Jerusalem, the surrounding streets were all open to traffic. The Romema area has seen a number of stabbing attacks during the two-month-long wave of violence that has rocked Israel and claimed nearly two dozen victims.Over 100 Paleostinians have also been killed in the violence, many of them assailants, according to Israel. |
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