At least eight people have been killed by gunmen who are reported to have infiltrated and attacked a Jewish seminary in West Jerusalem.
At least eight people have been killed by gunmen who are reported to have infiltrated and attacked a Jewish seminary in West Jerusalem.
Emergency services were called to the school - the Mercaz Harav yeshiva - in the Kiryat Moshe quarter of Jerusalem.
Israeli media said that at least 30 were injured in the attack at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in the Kiryat Moshe quarter of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben Ruby said that one of the attackers was wearing an explosives belt and was shot dead, the AP news agency reports.
Reports said one of the attackers had an explosives belt and was shot dead.
Channel 10 TV said 10 people were wounded in the attack.
It is the worst attack of its kind for a number of years. There were no attacks within Jerusalem during 2007.
Local Israeli media have reported up to 35 injured.
The gunmen are said to have entered a dining room at the rabbinical seminary, where about 80 people were gathered.
The gunmen are said to have entered a dining room at the rabbinical seminary, where about 80 people were gathered, AP reports.
There are reports of celebratory gunfire in Gaza after news broke about the attack.
The BBC's Crispin Thorold says this will be a particularly shocking incident for the Israeli public and Jewish people around the world - which comes at an extremely tense time.
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