Palestinian attacker stabs passengers on Tel Aviv bus says
Arab news .comJERUSALEM: A Palestinian man stabbed 12 people on a bus in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday before he was chased down, shot and arrested by a prison officer in an attack praised by the militant Hamas group and described by police as a "terror attack."
The assault was the latest in a spate of attacks in which Palestinians have used knives, acid and vehicles as weapons in recent months, leaving dead and injured. Police identified the assailant as a Palestinian from the West Bank and said he had entered Israel illegally.
Some of victims were in serious condition, hospital sources said. Another seven people were treated for shock. The attacker, who was on the bus himself, traveling with the other passengers, began stabbing people, including the driver, then managed to get out of the bus and started fleeing the scene.
Officers from a prison service who happened to be nearby and saw the bus swerving out of control and a man running away, gave chase, shot the man in the leg, wounding him lightly and subsequently arrested him.
“We believe it was a terror attack,” said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. He said four people were seriously hurt and another nine sustained lighter wounds. The stabber was in custody and the police are questioning him now, he said.
The stabbing follows the type of “lone-wolf” Palestinian attacks that have plagued Israel in recent months, killing about a dozen people, including five people killed with guns and meat cleavers in a bloody assault on a Jerusalem synagogue.
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