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Two people including a child have been killed and several injured after a Palestinian driver rammed his car into a group of people at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
A police spokesperson said the driver, who was shot at the scene, was dead. An Israeli security official identified him as Hussain Qraqaa, 31, a resident of Issawiya in East Jerusalem.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, described the incident on Friday as a terrorist attack and ordered security forces to be reinforced.
A volunteer medic with United Hatzalah ambulance service, Ariel Ben-David, told Army Radio: “Everyone was lying out, thrown about, in very bad condition. To our regret, one child did not survive.”
The incident occurred during a period of rising anxiety in Israel over security after an attack in which a lone Palestinian gunman killed seven people outside a synagogue last month.
