Three gunmen opened fire from automatic weapons on several vehicles near a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, wounding eight people in a “terror attack”, police said, AFP reports.

The incident occurred near Maale Adumim settlement, east of Jerusalem, police said, adding the attackers had arrived in a vehicle.

“The three terrorists… got out of their vehicle and started shooting from automatic weapons at vehicles that were standing in a traffic jam on the road towards Jerusalem,” the force said in a statement.

“Two terrorists were neutralised on the spot. In the searches conducted at the scene, another terrorist was located who tried to escape and he was also neutralised.” Eight people with varying degrees of injuries were evacuated from the scene by medics, the police said.