Israeli police said Sunday they had arrested a suspect in a shooting attack on a bus in Jerusalem's Old City that wounded eight people, two critically and including a pregnant woman.
Israeli police said Sunday they had arrested a suspect in a shooting attack on a bus in Jerusalem's Old City that wounded eight people, two critically.
Just days after a Egypt brokered truce ended three days of violence between Israel and Islamic Jihad militants in the densely populated Palestinian enclave of Gaza, a "terror attack in the Old City" has left seven people injured.
A shooting incident on a bus in Jerusalem's Old City early Sunday (August 14) injured seven people, two of whom were critically injured, reported AFP, citing Israeli police and medics.
"The police were informed of a shooting of a bus . Police have cordoned off the scene and are searching for a suspect who fled," the police said.
Seven people were wounded, two of them critically, when a shooter opened fire on a bus in Jerusalem's Old City early Sunday, Israeli police and medics said.Israel's emergency medical services, the Magen David Adom (MDA), called the incident a "terror attack in the Old City".An AFP journalist reported heightened security around the site, not far from Jerusalem's Western Wall, the holiest prayer site for Jews.Police have launched a search for the shooter, who fled after the pre-dawn attack.