Dramatic surveillance video shows vehicle mowing down pedestrians in Jerusalem
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STORY: CCTV footage captured the moment a driver rammed his vehicle into a railway stop in Jerusalem on Wednesday, dragging several people along the road. Israeli police, who shot him dead, said the incident appeared to be a deliberate terrorist attack.
Police said after driving into the railway stop, the Palestinian man crashed into a nearby junction, got out of his vehicle and tried to attack people with a metal bar.
At least one person was killed, and an ambulance service spokesman said eight people were injured, two of them critically.
Police say the driver rammed a white van into three paramilitary border policemen who were crossing the street, and then into people at the railway stop.
An Israeli security official has named the driver as Ibrahim Akari from East Jerusalem. Militant Islamist group Hamas has claimed responsibility for what it called "the heroic running-over operati
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)
STORY: CCTV footage captured the moment a driver rammed his vehicle into a railway stop in Jerusalem on Wednesday, dragging several people along the road. Israeli police, who shot him dead, said the incident appeared to be a deliberate terrorist attack.
Police said after driving into the railway stop, the Palestinian man crashed into a nearby junction, got out of his vehicle and tried to attack people with a metal bar.
At least one person was killed, and an ambulance service spokesman said eight people were injured, two of them critically.
Police say the driver rammed a white van into three paramilitary border policemen who were crossing the street, and then into people at the railway stop.
An Israeli security official has named the driver as Ibrahim Akari from East Jerusalem. Militant Islamist group Hamas has claimed responsibility for what it called "the heroic running-over operati