By Maayan Lubell
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian used his heavy construction vehicle to run down and kill an Israeli and overturn a bus on a main Jerusalem street on Monday in attacks that ended when policemen shot him dead, police said.
There were no passengers on the bus, in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of the city. Surveillance video broadcast on Israeli television showed the yellow excavator's mechanical arm tearing into the side of the bus as it lay on the sidewalk.
Police identified the driver of the digger as a Palestinian from East Jerusalem and described the incident as a terrorist attack.
Later, a motorcyclist shot and wounded a man on another Jerusalem street, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said. The circumstances of the incident were not immediately clear.
Tensions have been high in Jerusalem for the past month over the Gaza war and the killing of a Palestinian teen in the city by alleged Israeli assailants out to avenge the deaths of three abducted Israeli youngsters in the occupied West Bank.
