A police spokesman confirmed that the assailant had been shot dead.

Jerusalem:

An assailant who stabbed and wounded two police officers in Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday was shot dead by security forces, Israeli police said.

The assailant armed with a knife stabbed two officers near a Jewish religious school in the Old City, before being “neutralised”, police said. A police spokesman confirmed to AFP that the assailant had been shot dead.

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