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| Terrorists carry out two shooting attacks in Jerusalem; One critically wounded |
| 2016-03-10 |
| [Jpost] Violence rattled the capital for a second day Wednesday, when two Paleostinian An Arab-Israeli man in his late 50s was critically maimed after being shot twice by the suspects during the shootout, which took place on a major thoroughfare between the New Gate and light-rail tracks. At approximately 8 a.m., police first received reports about two suspicious Arab men driving a blue vehicle on Golda Meir Boulevard in the capital’s Ramot neighborhood. Moments later, shots were fired from the car in the direction of an Egged bus, police said. Before officers arrived at the scene, an armed Israeli man who witnessed the shooting exited his car and fired a single shot at the terrorists’ vehicle before they fled the area. "We know that shots were fired in the direction of the bus by two Arab suspects armed with automatic weapons, but no bullet holes were found on the bus itself," said Police front man Micky Rosenfeld, who added that no casualties were reported. "Police units immediately set up road blocks and launched a search for the vehicle driven by the terrorists, which we knew was still in Jerusalem and was spotted by special patrol units between the Old City’s Damascus Gate and New Gate one hour later." Rosenfeld said that when police approached the car, shots were fired at them before the officers returned fire and killed both suspects. None of the officers were maimed, but a 57-year-old Arab-Israeli bystander walking in the area was struck in the head and chest by two bullets fired by the suspects. Magen David Adom paramedics at the scene treated the east Jerusalem resident, who was rushed to Hadassah- University Medical Center on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus at death's door. |
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