2 wounded in new Jerusalem tractor rampage

[July 22, 2008]  JERUSALEM (AP) -- The driver of a construction vehicle rammed into cars and a city bus in downtown Jerusalem on Tuesday, wounding two people before he was shot dead, police said.

The driver's identity was not immediately clear and there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rampage on one of Jerusalem's busiest streets. Israeli police called it a "terror attack."

The attack was a chilling imitation of a similar incident early this month, when a Palestinian driver went on a rampage with his earthmoving vehicle on a busy Jerusalem street. That drover plowed into vehicles and pedestrians, killing three and wounding dozens before an off-duty soldier shot and killed him.

[Associated Press]

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