Three killed, several injured in shooting at Jerusalem bus stop | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Two gunmen have been additionally killed by police shortly after opening fireplace on the group.

Three folks have been killed and several other wounded after two gunmen opened fireplace at a bus cease on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Israeli police mentioned. The attackers have been additionally killed.

Police mentioned 16 folks have been injured in Thursday morning’s capturing. Emergency companies evacuated eight of the extra critically wounded victims to close by hospitals, the Israeli ambulance service mentioned.

Police in West Jerusalem mentioned the gunmen “arrived on the scene in a car armed with firearms”, together with an M16 and a pistol, and opened fireplace in direction of a crowd of civilians on the bus station.

The attackers, residents of East Jerusalem, have been “subsequently neutralised by safety forces and a close-by civilian”, police mentioned.

Ammunition and weapons have been discovered inside their automotive, they added.

The Magen David Adom emergency service mentioned one of many victims was a 24-year-old girl. A 73-year-old man, who was in a important situation, was pronounced useless at Shaare Zedek Medical Heart. A 3rd particular person additionally died of his wounds, Israeli media reported.

The ambulance service initially mentioned that 5 of the wounded had critical accidents and two had reasonable to gentle accidents.

The incident occurred simply as Israel and Hamas agreed to extend the truce for a seventh day, shortly earlier than the settlement was set to run out.

Israel’s army mentioned on Thursday that the non permanent pause in combating within the Gaza Strip will proceed “in gentle of the mediators’ efforts to proceed the method of releasing hostages, and topic to the phrases of the settlement”.