Six officers hurt in East Jerusalem stone throwing

Police say six officers were lightly wounded by stones thrown at them in the Shuafat neighborhood in East Jerusalem.

Police were investigating the death of an Arab man who died in hospital earlier this evening, police say, when residents began throwing stones at them.

The circumstances in which the man was injured and subsequently died, are not immediately clear.

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