Shooting attack at entrance to Kotel, One Dead Many wounded ..... Terrorist "neutralized"

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The Murderer 

Two civilians were critically and seriously wounded this morning, Sunday, and two policemen were lightly wounded in a shooting attack in the area of the Chain Gate near the Western Wall and the entrance to the Temple Mount.

The terrorist was neutralized by security forces.

The wounded were evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem, Hadassah Mount Scopus and Shaare Zedek hospitals in Jerusalem.

Preliminary investigation raises suspicion that the terrorist disguised himself as a haredi man and opened fire with a submachine gun at passersby and policemen who were at the scene. A knife was also found on the terrorist's person.

Police believe that another terrorist played a part in the attack, and that he escaped the scene. Police are conducting searches for him.

The Temple Mount was closed to Jews immediately after the attack.

MDA teams described wounded people in critical condition and moderate to serious condition, men in their thirties.

Aryeh Yaffa, a volunteer doctor with United Hatzalah, said: "This is one wounded critically and one moderately- who is conscious. We provided first aid to the wounded at the scene while performing resuscitation operations on the critically wounded man, who was taken to the hospital amid continued resuscitation efforts."