Police on Wednesday said they suspected a bus driver who fatally ran over an ultra-Orthodox teenager and wounded several others in Jerusalem of negligent homicide, as a court remanded him into custody for nine days.

Yosef Eisenthal, 14, was killed and three other teens were injured at an intersection in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Romema when a bus rammed into Haredi protesters, as tens of thousands of people attended an anti-conscription demonstration on Tuesday night.

Police initially sought to keep the driver in custody for 15 days, and said they sought to have him charged with aggravated murder, but later downgraded the charge.

The bus rammed the protesters on Shamgar Street, then continued on to Ohel Yehoshua Street, where it hit another pedestrian. MDA said two of the victims were 14 and 17 years old.

Graphic video from the scene showed the bus driving through the intersection, where protesters had lit a fire in the road, and a victim being pushed underneath the bus as bystanders scream.

A Times of Israel reporter witnessed emergency responders attempting to extricate somebody from under the bus on Ohel Yehoshua Street, before being pushed away by police.

Police said that a preliminary investigation found that the bus driver was attacked by rioters who were blocking the road before the deadly........

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