Magen David Adom: Stabbing victim hospitalized in serious condition

The woman wounded in a stabbing attack at Jerusalem central bus station is in moderate to serious condition and has been evacuated to Shaare Zedek hospital in the city, the Magen David Adom rescue service says.

Police say the woman is 70 years old.

MDA says the terrorist tried to get on an Egged bus outside the station, after which he apparently stabbed the woman. A riot police officer who arrived at the scene and shot and neutralized the terrorist.

Dr. Yoni Elstein, who was on the bus where the attack occurred, says he treated the woman. He says she was “sitting next to the driver, bleeding but fully conscious, with stab wounds to her upper body. We gave her medical treatment and sent her to the hospital. She is in moderate to serious condition.”

A number of people at the scene of the attack are suffering from shock, MDA says.

— Judah Ari Gross