A truck driven by a Palestinian rammed into pedestrians on a popular promenade in Jerusalem on Sunday killing four people and injuring 15 more, Reuters reported quoting Israeli mass media.

The police shot dead the driver of the truck.

"It is a terrorist attack, a ramming attack," a police spokeswoman said.

The accident occurred on the street at the Armon Hanatziv promenade overlooking the walled Old City of Jerusalem.

According to preliminary data, the truck plowed into a group of soldiers, and that they fired on the driver, who reversed direction and ran over them again.