Shots in Jerusalem: at least five deaths and 11 injuries

At a shootout in Jerusalem, at least eleven people were injured and five more were injured. The MDA reported that twelve other people were injured in hospitals. Seven of them had suffered serious injuries. Four civilians died at the center of the incident, and another succumbed to his injuries in the hospital a little later. The incident is said to have occurred on a bus at the Ramon intersection in East Jerusalem.

The police suspect an attack. Access routes were closed. According to the officials, the two assassins are said to have come in a vehicle for the Ramon crossing in northern Jerusalem. They would have opened the fire at a bus stop. A security officer and an armed civilian shot them and “switched off” them. The Zaka ambulance service announced that it was presumably two Palestinians. The Israeli security authorities assume that the two came from villages in the Ramallah region. Your identities are currently still being checked.

Numerous police forces are in use to secure the crime scene, even with explosive experts. Forensic teams took care of the evidence. After the attack, according to eyewitnesses, military barriers between Jerusalem and Ramallah, near the Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank, were closed to traffic. There was a raid on the army in Kalandia.

Videos are circulating on social networks that show the incident. A security guard from a nearby bus station told the Israeli TV channel Channel 13, two armed men had entered a bus at an intersection that shots had fallen. “The bus is perforated at the front of shots,” he said. One of the attackers also wore a knife.

MDA assistants who arrived shortly after the incident reported people who were unconscious on the street, on the side of the road and on the sidewalk near a bus stop. “There was great destruction, broken glass on the floor and a lot of excitement,” the newspaper “Jerusalem Post” quotes a first aider.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was supposed to be presented to a hearing in his criminal trial at the Jerusalem district court on Monday, will postpone the appointment because of the incident in Jerusalem, as his lawyers announced. He and the heads of the Israeli security authorities currently hold a “compliance”, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s office.

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