Jerusalem: Four people were killed and 15 others injured in Jerusalem on Sunday when a truck ploughed into pedestrians in a busy shopping area, police said.

A number of people were trapped under the truck near the Armon Hanatziv promenade, Haaretz daily reported adding that the driver was shot by security personnel.

According to the police, the truck veered from its course along the promenade and ploughed into a group of people getting off a bus.

Police were investigating the incident.

‘It is a terrorist attack, a ramming attack,’ a police spokeswoman said on Israel Radio.

Police said the dead, three women and one man, were all in their 20s.

A medic later said that all four were soldiers.

An Israeli bus driver who witnessed the incident said on the radio the truck ploughed into a group of soldiers, and that they fired on the driver, who reversed direction and ran over them again.

‘They shot him, until they neutralised him,’ said the bus driver.

Israeli TV stations said the driver was killed, and footage showed bullet holes in the truck’s windscreen.

Israeli television stations said at least four people were killed and that around 15 were wounded in the incident at the Armon Hanatziv promenade overlooking the walled Old City.

Israel Radio reported the driver was a Palestinian but did not immediately give his name.

A wave of Palestinian street attacks, including vehicle rammings, has largely slowed but not stopped completely since it began in October 2015.