[IsraelTimes] Cops allegedly attacked by several suspects after entering Paleostinian neighborhood to put out burning car; second officer slightly injured; attacker captured after fleeing scene
A police officer was moderately hurt in a suspected stabbing attack in East Jerusalem’s Ras al-Amud neighborhood on Sunday afternoon, police and medics said.
The Magen David Adom emergency service said its medics took the officer to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center with stab wounds in his upper body.
Another officer, who was slightly hurt in his hand in the incident, was treated at the scene, MDA said.
The alleged attacker, 23, from the nearby Jabel Mukaber neighborhood, initially expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. Several hours later, police said they detained the man at the home of a relative in the adjacent neighborhood, but a man claiming to be the suspect’s brother told news hounds that he turned the suspect in.
The apparent relative also claimed that the incident was a brawl, and not a terror attack as police have charged.
The stabbing came after officers entered the Paleostinian neighborhood with firefighters to extinguish a car that was set on fire, officials said.
Police said officers were attacked by several suspects, one of whom committed the stabbing. Two men allegedly involved in the incident were also detained, police said. It was not immediately clear what sort of involvement they had.
Video from the scene showed a clash between officers and locals, but it was unclear if it was showing the arrest of the two suspects, or the attack itself.
The alleged attack came after an Israeli man was stabbed and lightly hurt when he was out jogging on Saturday morning on Jerusalem’s Hebron Road.
Video from the scene showed a clash between officers and locals, but it was unclear if it was showing the arrest of the two suspects, or the attack itself.
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