Nine stabbed on Tel Aviv bus
Police apprehended the 23-year-old assailant shortly after
The scene of the incident in Tel Aviv
A suspected terrorist stabbed at least nine people on a bus in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning.
The attack took place on Bus number 40 on Menachem Begin Road, a major thoroughfare in Tel Aviv, near the Ma'ariv Bridge. Two other people were moderately wounded, while the rest of the casualties were in light condition, according to Magen David Adom emergency services.
The attacker fled on foot but was shot and neutralized by police and is being questioned. The assailant is a 23-year-old man from the West Bank city of Tulkarm, illegally residing in Israel, police said.
Tel Aviv police chief Bentzi Sau said the attacker boarded the bus about 400 metres away from where the incident began. He first attacked the driver, then began stabbing a number of bus passengers.
Police beefed up security in the city to help locate possible accomplices, and have asked the public to increase awareness.
