Suspect Shot after Car Rams Crowd in Jerusalem

A Palestinian suspect has been shot and at least four people have been injured after an attack on pedestrians in Jerusalem, police say.

The attacker is presumed dead after a car rammed a group standing near a tram stop close to East Jerusalem, the predominantly Arab side of the city.

The driver got out of the vehicle and attempted to stab passersby before being shot and wounded by a security guard, police said.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the incident happened close to a border police station on the line separating west and east Jerusalem.

The incident is being treated as a suspected terror attack.

It happened on the Jewish holiday of Purim, when the streets are busy with pedestrians.

Israeli media are reporting that the injured are female border patrol officers and they have suffered "moderate" and "light" injuries.

The attack mirrors a series of incidents in the city last year in which Palestinians ploughed vehicles into groups of pedestrians, killing several people.

Tensions flared in Jerusalem last year, both before and after the war in Gaza, but the city has been relatively calm recently.

The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) agreed on Thursday to suspend security coordination with Israel in the occupied West Bank.

Officials are concerned this could have a knock-on effect on security throughout the territory.

The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which have been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East War, and in Gaza, a strip of land on the Mediterranean coast that is separated from the West Bank.