Two injured in stabbing attack at checkpoint near Jerusalem: reports

An ambulance is seen at a hospital where stabbing victims were taken after being injured at a checkpoint near Jerusalem. (Yoav Dudekovich/TPS)

Two people were stabbed Thursday at an Israeli checkpoint near Jerusalem, according to local reports. 

The Magen David Adom ambulance service said medics were treating a woman in her 20s and a 25-year-old man at the Mazmuria checkpoint near the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, The Times of Israel reported.

Both were in moderate condition, the report said. 

The alleged assailant was shot by security forces at the scene.