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Itongadol.- Two Arab youths stabbed a security guard for the light rail in the northeastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev on Monday, police said. Minutes later, a stabbing attack was thwarted near Damascus Gate.
The security guard, who was moderately wounded in the attack, managed to fire his weapon toward the two attackers, wounding one, a 12-year-old boy.
Passengers on the light rail subdued the second attacker, who was about the same age, until police officers arrived at the scene and took him into custody.
The victim, who is approximately 25 years old, suffered stab wounds to the upper body, according to the Magen David Adom first-aid service.
MDA paramedics treated the injured guard at the scene, on Aluf Yekutiel Street, before evacuating him to the city’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
The attacker who had been shot by the guard was also treated by paramedics before he was evacuated to a hospital, MDA said.
“The swift and determined response by the light rail guard and the passengers prevented the injury of other innocent people,” said Avi Cohen, the captain of the nearby police station.
In a separate incident, an assailant attempted to stab police near Damascus Gate. The police officers, who were not harmed, shot and disarmed him. The attacker was critically wounded and taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem for treatment, police said.