Five people died, one was seriously injured and six others were seriously injured on Monday in a shooting attack against the outskirts of Jerusalem, Israeli publication Haaretz reported.
The emergency service and medical teams “pronounced the death of four victims, including a man of about 50 years and three men of about 30 years,” said a statement from Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency service, and added that he was providing medical treatment to several other people, with five evacuated to hospitals.
The service received reports from more than a dozen people injured by shots on Monday at a road crossing in eastern Jerusalem, and the police said the assailants had been “neutralized.”
He later said that paramedics and ambulance equipment were providing medical treatment and evacuating five “seriously injured people” who had been sent to hospitals in Jerusalem.
“Several other victims, with various degrees of injuries, are also being treated at the scene,” he added.
It was not clear immediately who carried out the shooting or what was the reason. The Israeli police described the shooters as “terrorists” without saying how many had been involved in the incident. They also claimed that the perpetrators had been killed, according to Reuters.
The Israeli ambulance service previously said that 15 people were injured and that at least five were in serious condition with gunshot wounds. The paramedics who arrived at the scene found the accustomed victims on the road and the sidewalk near a bus stop, some of them unconscious.
Haaretz In addition, the two suspects had been shot dead by “a civil member of the security forces that was present at the scene”, citing the police.
“The Israeli security establishment estimates that the two are fed residents, and that they shot on a bus and a bus stop at the crossroads,” said the newspaper.
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