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Two Separate Terror Attacks Strike Jerusalem

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JERUSALEM, Israel -- Two separate terror attacks in Jerusalem left one person dead and a number of others wounded on Monday.

In the first incident, a Palestinian driving an excavator ran over a pedestrian and rammed a bus overturning it before being shot and killed by police.

The pedestrian, in his 20s, was killed in the incident and at least five others were lightly wounded.

Mohammad Jabbis, from the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, has been identified as the attacker.

It's not the first time construction equipment was used to carry out terror attacks in Jerusalem. In 2008, three people were killed and 30 others injured when a bulldozer driver ran over cars and people before being shot and killed.
 
During the next three years at least four other attacks were carried out using construction equipment or vehicles injuring dozens of people and killing at least one.

In the second, attack on Monday a soldier was shot in the stomach and seriously wounded by a motorist.  Police are calling it a terror attack and said they were in pursuit of the attacker.

Earlier in the day, five Israeli police officers were lightly injured in rioting on the Temple Mount.

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