Israeli police announced the arrest of a man suspected of carrying out an armed attack on a bus yesterday at dawn in central Jerusalem, in which, according to new data, eight people were injured, two of them seriously.
“He is a lone attacker, a resident of the city and with history,” Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said at his weekly cabinet meeting. Magen David Adom, a medical aid organization in Israel, said it intervened after receiving reports of a shooting on a bus in Jerusalem.
The organization’s spokesman, Zaki Heller, said “a total of seven people were injured,” including “a woman and six men,” noting that two of them were in critical condition, and police indicated eight people on the adjusted list. injured.
“We can confirm that there are US citizens among the victims,” a spokesman for the US embassy in occupied Jerusalem told AFP. “We are collecting additional information.”
“I was returning from the Western Wall, the bus was full of passengers, I stopped at the bus stop at the grave of David, at that moment the shooting started,” bus driver Daniil Kanievsky told a small group of journalists present on the spot. AFP correspondent.
