A truck driven by a Palestinian rammed into pedestrians on a popular promenade in Jerusalem on Sunday killing four people, according to Israeli police who called it a deliberate attack.
Three women and one man, all in their twenties, were killed and at least 15 more were wounded, medics say.
“It is a terrorist attack, a ramming attack,” a police spokeswoman said on Israel Radio, Reuters reported.
Police said the driver had been shot dead by soldiers from the group.
A bus driver who witnessed Sunday’s attack told Israeli radio that the lorry driver had ploughed into the group before reversing over victims.
Israel’s police chief Roni Alsheich said the attacker was from East Jerusalem and owned an Israeli driving license.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said security had been heightened throughout the city in response.
Images from the scene showed a lorry with bullet holes riddled across the windscreen.
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A truck rammed into pedestrians in Jerusalem on a popular promenade overlooking the walled Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday, injuring at least 15 people, police and the ambulance service said, calling it a deliberate attack, Reuters reported.
“It is a terrorist attack, a ramming attack,” a police spokeswoman said on Israel Radio, which reported that bodies were “strewn on the street”. The radio said the driver of the vehicle was shot.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said some 15 people were hurt and at least two were seriously injured.