Palestinian kills three in Jerusalem bulldozer rampage

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

JERUSALEM (AFP) — A Palestinian killed three Israelis and wounded 45 others as he rammed a bulldozer into buses and cars in Jerusalem on Wednesday before being shot dead by Israeli police who branded it a terror attack.

National police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld described the rampage in the heart of the Holy City as a "terrorist" act by a 30-year-old man from occupied east Jerusalem who worked for an Israeli company at a nearby construction site.

Chaos erupted as the heavy vehicle barrelled along the busy Jaffa Road, smashing into two crowded buses, using its shovel to overturn one of them and ramming other vehicles, reducing one car to a mangled wreck.

Police officers clambered onto the bulldozer and shot the man dead.

The attack was the first in...