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Bulldozer slams into bus in Jerusalem,3 killed
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-07-02 21:51 LIKE A NIGHTMARE The attack set off a panic in downtown Jerusalem. Sirens were heard across the downtown when the attacks happened, and dozens of people were seen running through the streets to flee the spot. A preliminary investigation showed that the bulldozer left a nearby construction site and drove against the direction of traffic on Jaffa Street when it started the rampage, during which a second bus, with 15 people on board, was also hit. A witness named Zion Shetreet told local daily Yedioth Ahronoth that the "tractor turned into the road very suddenly and started trampling over the cars standing in the stoplight," saying that " this is something you only see in the movies. It was awful." Asaf Nadav, the driver of the overturned bus and who was lightly injured, recalled that "I was in a traffic jam on Jaffa Street and I suddenly saw hoards of people running toward the bus and then continuing toward the market (nearby)." "Then I saw the bulldozer heading in my direction, it gave me a little nudge. I opened the window to yell at the driver, but then he turned the bulldozer in its place, lifted the bus up and flipped it over. He slammed into the bus a few more times then continued on his way," he said. Chen Shimon, a 19-year-old soldier, said the whole scene was a nightmare. "I just got off the bus and I saw the tractor driving and knocking everything down in his path," she said. "Everything he saw he rammed." |
