• Some of the injured were in serious condition

JERUSALEM: Three gunmen opened fire from automatic weapons on several vehicles near a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank Thursday, wounding eight people in a “terror attack,” police said.

The incident occurred near Maale Adumim settlement, east of Jerusalem, police said, adding the attackers had arrived in a vehicle.

“The three terrorists… got out of their vehicle and started shooting from automatic weapons at vehicles that were standing in a traffic jam on the road toward Jerusalem,” the force said in a statement.

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There has been a shooting incident on Highway 1 near the Ma'ale Adumim interchange in Israel.

At least 8 were injured in the attack, 3 of them in critical condition (under CPR), 2 more in moderate condition.

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Some of the injured were in serious condition, the ambulance service said.

“Two terrorists were neutralized on the spot. In the searches conducted at the scene, another terrorist was located who tried to escape and he was also neutralized.”
Eight people with varying degrees of injuries were evacuated from the scene by medics, the police said.

Reuters