Jerusalem driver wounds 19 in "attack": police

JERUSALEM-A car slammed into a crowd in central Jerusalem late on Monday, injuring 19 people, nearly all of them Israeli soldiers, in what police described as a "terrorist" attack.An Israeli soldier and then a policeman fired at the Arab driver, killing him, a police spokesman said.The driver was still lying in the road an hour after being shot.The incident came just three hours after Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was handed the daunting task of forming a new government and revived memories of two previous attacks by Palestinians in vehicles in the city in the past few months.Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a number of soldiers had been standing on a pavement and were struck by the car as it careered into them-deliberately in the view of witnesses.Jerusalem police chief Aharon Franco said almost all the injured were soldiers. Two were seriously hurt, medics said.The black car, its windows shattered, halted when it slammed into a Roman Catholic religious building opposite the walls of Jerusalem's Old City on a road that marks the dividing line between Arab East Jerusalem and the Jewish west.Two of 19 people struck by the car were seriously injured, a spokesman for the Magen David Adom ambulance service said of the incident at Kikar Tzahal-Israel Defence Forces Square.

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