DIGGER DRIVER SHOT IN JERUSALEM !

The driver of a construction vehicle in Jerusalem has been shot by police and another driver after he rammed a police car and an empty bus.

Details of the incident are still coming in but it appears to echo two attacks by Palestinians on the streets of Jerusalem in July 2008.

Israeli police are calling the incident in Malah, a terrorist attack.

Tensions are currently very high between Israelis and Palestinians after Israel's military offensive in Gaza.

The authorities said a Palestinian rammed into a bus and police car, wounding two officers before being shot by an officer who was inside the police vehicle by a passing taxi driver.

The driver - who has not been identified - was initially reported as having been shot dead although later reports said he was critically wounded.

On 2 July 2008, a Palestinian killed three Israelis and wounded 45 more when he rammed the front-end loader he was driving into buses and cars in Jaffa Street, before being shot dead.

Three weeks later 16 people were wounded in a similar incident, and the attacker also killed.

Suicide bomb attacks by militants from the West Bank have been greatly reduced after reaching a peak in the early 2000s. Recent attacks appear to have been launched mostly by enraged individuals from mainly-Arab East Jerusalem.

BBC NEWS REPORT.