JERUSALEM, Sept 22, 2008 (AFP) - About a dozen people were injured Monday by a Palestinian who steered his car at them on a west Jerusalem street and was then shot and killed by an armed passer-by, police said.

Two of the wounded were in serious condition, the radio said, citing medical sources. Police were unable to confirm initial reports that all of the injured were Israeli soldiers.

The incident took place near Tzahal Square, near the walls of Old Jerusalem and Jaffa Gate.

Exactly two months ago, on July 22m a Palestinain was killed by Israeli security forces after he injured 16 people when he turned an earth mover on passers-by and vehicles in Jerusalem.

That incident mimicked one 10 days earlier in which another Palestinian, also in an earth mover, killed three Israelis and injured more than 45 in the heart of Jerusalem before he himself was killed.

Earlier on Monday, an Israeli soldier lost an eye and three Palestinians were hurt when a woman sprayed acid at the soldier at a checkpoint near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the army said.