WRAP 3 killed in bulldozer attack; officer who shot driver, body, ADDS driver's home

Описание: (2 Jul 2008) SHOTLIST
Jerusalem
1. Zoom out from wreckage to wide top view of attack site
2. Mid top view of scene
3. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Eli Mizrahi, Israeli policeman who shot the attacker:
"We arrived there within seconds, we parked the bike at the side of the road and the tractor was nearby. I thought he was neutralised (of no danger), I ran trying to make contact with the attacker on the tractor. I realised he was beginning to drive away. I noticed a civilian who was there too, as was a policeman who was laying (on the ground) between his legs. The attacker was out of control, leaning on the steering wheel. He was accelerating on the gas pedal. As he was driving I climbed the tractor stairs, and saw the civilian shooting at the attacker. I also shot him with two bullets, and made sure he was neutralised, and that was the end of the incident."
Jerusalem
4. Body covered in plastic being carried away
Jerusalem
5. Body of attacker taken by the security forces in ambulance
6. Bus turned over by rescue forces
East Jerusalem
7. Israeli border police car outside house of alleged attacker
8. People sitting outside house
9. Border police talking to local residents, pan to onlookers
10. Border police, people outside house
11. Police investigators arriving, walking by armed police officer
12. Investigators taking man away
13. Two armed policemen
14. Women and children looking
15. Police vehicles
16. Wide of area
STORYLINE
A Palestinian driving an enormous construction vehicle went on the rampage in Jerusalem Wednesday, crashing into vehicles and pedestrians, killing at least three people and wounding a further 45 before he was shot dead by an off-duty soldier.
The attack wrought havoc, forced traffic to a standstill and sent hundreds of people fleeing in panic, as medics treated the wounded.
Three Palestinian militant groups have since claimed responsibility for the attack while Israeli police are referring to the attacker as a "terrorist" acting on his own.
The rampage took place in front of an office building that is home to The Associated Press and to other media outlets.
An off-duty soldier - Eli Mizrahi - killed the perpetrator by shooting him in the head several times at point-blank range as onlookers screamed.
Mizrahi later told what had happened.
"The attacker was out of control, leaning on the steering wheel. He was accelerating on the gas pedal. As he was driving I climbed the tractor stairs, and saw the civilian shooting at the attacker. I also shot him with two bullets, and made sure he was neutralised" he told AP Television.
Local TV has claimed four people died as a result of the rampage: confirmed reports currently put the death toll at three.
In the immediate aftermath, two bodies lay motionless at the scene, covered in plastic, while injured people sat dazed amid piles of broken glass and pools of blood that had stained the street.
Wednesday's attack marks a departure from previous methods of attack used by militant groups.
During the second Palestinian uprising, which erupted in late 2000, Jerusalem experienced dozens of suicide bombings.
The city has remained largely quiet the past three years, although sporadic attacks have occurred - most recently in March, when a Palestinian gunman entered a Jerusalem seminary and killed eight young students.
The three organisations claiming responsibility for Wednesday's attack include the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, which is affiliated with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Jewish state has also committed to a Gaza ceasefire and to supporting Abbas' security forces in the West Bank.

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