Jerusalem shooting victims gunned down in bus stop attack identified – latest news

Israeli police said two Palestinians were behind the violence, but they were both killed by security forces and an armed civilian.

Jerusalem shooting victims gunned down in bus stop attack identified – latest news
Surveillance camera footage shows the shooting attack at the entrance to Jerusalem this morning. Two people were killed, and at least seven others were hurt. Two off-duty soldiers and an armed civilian shot the terrorists dead.
Surveillance camera footage shows the shooting attack at the entrance to Jerusalem this morning

The three victims of this morning’s shooting at a bus stop in Jerusalem have been named.

Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, 73, Chana Ifergan, 64, and Livia Dickman, 24, were all gunned down when two Palestinians opened fire in an attack on a main road towards the western edge of the city.

Wasserman was a judge in Israel’s rabbinical court system in Ashdod, while Ifergan worked at a school in the city of Beit Shemesh, the Times of Israel reports.

Surveillance camera footage that Metro.co.uk has decided not to publish shows the harrowing moment the two men jumped out of a car, firing indiscriminately.

Police said the attackers used an M-16 rifle and a handgun before they were killed by off-duty soldiers and another civilian.

This comes just hours after Israel and Hamas agreed to extend the ceasefire in Gaza minutes before it was due to expire.