Tractor Terror Attack in Jerusalem Kills 1

Mercifully, the bus was empty at the time, but the driver was among the casualties, suffering light injured after it overturned from the impact. Four of the injured have been taken to Hadassah Hospital at Mount Scopus for treatment and one was taken to Sha\’arei Tzedek Medical Center. 
 

A twenty five-year-old man has been killed, after Magen David Adom (MDA) medics declared him dead at the scene.
 

The attack occurred on Shmuel HaNavi street, just outside the Olive Tree Hotel. Witnesses there reported that the tractor driver rammed a bus and that the event did not seem like an accident. 
 

"I saw a large tractor slam into a bus going to Beitar Illit; there were several injuries treated by United Hatzalah," said Ichud Hatzalah representative Shraga Hoffman, who was at the scene. "The bus is on its side. The greatest miracle is that this is the first stop of the route so it [the bus] was relatively empty of passengers."
 

A policeman shot the tractor driver and killed him to stop the attack.
 

Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat has now made a statement, according to Yediot Aharonot, urging residents not to take the law into their own hands as the police investigate the attack.
 

"A police officer at the scene stopped his car, got out, neutralized the terrorist and thus prevented a further attack," the Jerusalem Police Spokesperson\’s Office stated shortly after the attack.