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Tragic 'Rolling Terror Attack' Claims Two Lives in Northern Israel

A Palestinian suspect has killed two individuals in a suspected terror attack involving a vehicle ramming and stabbing in northern Israel, leaving the community in shock.

Source: bbc.co.uk1 min read
Tragic 'Rolling Terror Attack' Claims Two Lives in Northern Israel
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In brief

In a shocking sequence of violence described as a 'rolling terror attack', a Palestinian man has killed two people in northern Israel. The attack included running over a pedestrian in Beit Shean and stabbing a woman in Ein Harod. The suspect was eventually shot and wounded by a civilian. Magen David Adom reports that the victims include a 68-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman.

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 said the victim killed in Beit Shean was a 68-year-old man, and the stabbing victim in Ein Harod was an 18-year-old woman.

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