Israeli security forces stand guard as medics cover bodies at the site of a ramming attack in Jerusalem on January 8, 2017. A lorry ploughed into a group of soldiers in Jerusalem killing at least four people and injuring 15 others. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP
Israeli security forces stand guard as medics cover bodies at the site of a ramming attack in Jerusalem on January 8, 2017. A lorry ploughed into a group of soldiers in Jerusalem killing at least four people and injuring 15 others. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP
Israeli security forces stand guard as medics cover bodies at the site of a ramming attack in Jerusalem on January 8, 2017. A lorry ploughed into a group of soldiers in Jerusalem killing at least four people and injuring 15 others. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP
Israeli security forces stand guard as medics cover bodies at the site of a ramming attack in Jerusalem on January 8, 2017. A lorry ploughed into a group of soldiers in Jerusalem killing at least four

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Four Israeli soldiers killed by truck in Jerusalem

An Israeli bus driver who witnessed the incident said the truck ploughed into the group of soldiers, and that they fired on the driver killing him.

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JERUSALEM // A truck rammed into a group of Israeli soldiers on a popular promenade in Jerusalem on Sunday killing four of them.

Israeli police said it was a terrorist attack and that the driver was shot and killed.

Police said the dead, three women and one man, were all in their twenties.

An Israeli bus driver who witnessed the incident said the truck ploughed into the group of soldiers, and that they fired on the driver, who reversed direction and ran over them again.

“They shot him, until they neutralised him,” said the bus driver, who gave his name only as Moshe. Israeli TV stations showed footage of the scene, including bullet holes in the truck’s windscreen.

Some 15 wounded were strewn on the street at the Armon Hanatziv promenade overlooking the walled Old City of Jerusalem.

* Reuters

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