A car has hit a group of pedestrians at a Jerusalem railway station,
injuring at least nine, Israeli police say.Three people, one of them a baby girl of three months, were seriously hurt in the incident at Ammunition Hill light rail station, medics said.
The driver tried to flee the scene on foot and was shot by a police officer, police told BBC News.
An initial investigation suggests the incident was a terrorist attack, the police spokesperson added.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the driver was a Palestinian from East Jerusalem. He is in a serious condition in hospital, Israeli officials say.
East Jerusalem has experienced months of unrest since a Palestinian teenager was abducted and burned to death in early July, two days after the discovery of the bodies of three Israeli teenagers who were abducted and killed in the occupied West Bank in mid-June.
The killings set off an escalating cycle of violence, leading to a 50-day conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip that claimed more than 2,000 lives.
Earlier on Wednesday, two Israeli soldiers were wounded when unidentified gunmen in Egypt's Sinai fired shots and an anti-tank missile across the border, 60km (40 miles) south of Gaza, according to the Israeli military.
Source:BBC
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