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Two Fatalities Reported in Suspected Palestinian Attack in Northern Israel

A suspected Palestinian ramming and knife assault has left two dead in northern Israel, following a sequence of violent events involving a pedestrian and a stabbing victim.

Source: bbc.co.uk1 min read
Two Fatalities Reported in Suspected Palestinian Attack in Northern Israel
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In brief

In a tragic event in northern Israel, two individuals lost their lives during what police described as a 'rolling terror attack.' The attacker, identified as a resident of the Palestinian Authority, first ran over a 68-year-old man in Beit Shean before stabbing an 18-year-old woman in Ein Harod. The assailant was subsequently shot and injured by a bystander.

Two people have been killed in what police say was a rolling terror attack in northern Israel.

Police said the attacker ran over a pedestrian in the eastern city of Beit Shean, then drove on before stabbing a woman near Ein Harod, about 8 miles (12.5km) to the west.

The attacker was shot and wounded by a civilian bystander, the statement said, adding that the suspect was a Palestinian Authority resident in the occupied West Bank.

Israel's Magen David Adom emergency service identified the victim killed in Beit Shean as a 68-year-old man, while the stabbing victim in Ein Harod was an 18-year-old woman.

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