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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236246868064&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFullA Palestinian man driving a large construction vehicle was shot dead after intentionally attacking a police car on Thursday afternoon. Before he was shot, the man tried to tip over additional vehicles including a public bus at the Golomb intersection, near Jerusalem's Malha Mall. Army Radio reported that the tractor driver was critically wounded immediately.
One witness, a taxi driver identified as "Dor," told Israel Radio that he chased the driver as he witnessed the attack.
"I saw the police car fly into the air. He flipped it over twice, then continued dragging it toward a bus that was stuck in traffic," he said. He told the station he fired four shots at the man, wounding him. "Then a policeman came with his M-16 and finished him off finally," he said.
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According to ZAKA, the bus was full of girls dressed in Purim costumes en route to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital to cheer up patients in advance of the holiday. A number of bystanders suffering from shock were treated on the scene by MDA teams. ZAKA operation commander Haim Weinrot said that "the girls were hysterical. They saw the enormous scoop heading toward them and saw death approaching, but they were saved at the last minute by the post. It is a Purim miracle."
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The attack is the third of its kind in less than a year. At the beginning of last July, a bulldozer plowed into a number of vehicles on Jaffa Street, near the Mahene Yehuda market in the capital. Five people were killed in that incident, including the terrorist. Three weeks later, another tractor driver went on a rampage in Jerusalem, aiming his vehicle at an Egged bus near the King David hotel. He was shot and killed before anybody was wounded.
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