(JERUSALEM) — The driver of a backhoe was shot and killed after he drove the construction machine over a number of vehicles near the Jerusalem hotel where Barack Obama is scheduled to stay Tuesday night, according to police.
The construction vehicle struck several other vehicles, including a bus, before the driver was shot and killed by an Israeli border policeman and a civilian, a government statement said.
The driver's identity was not immediately clear and there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rampage on one of Jerusalem's busiest streets. Israeli police called it a "terror attack".
The attack was a chilling imitation of a similar incident early this month, when a Palestinian driver went on a rampage with his earthmoving vehicle on a busy Jerusalem street. That drover plowed into vehicles and pedestrians, killing three and wounding dozens before an off-duty soldier shot and killed him.
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