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--- 9:50 a.m. Israeli security officials are identifying the assailant of an Israeli bus station attack as a 21-year-old Arab citizen of Israel. Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri says the attacker is Mohannad al-Okbi from the Bedouin town of Hura in southern Israel. He was shot and killed in the attack. She says security officers arrested one of al-Okbi's relatives on suspicion that he assisted the attacker. The Israeli security agency Shin Bet said Monday the attacker had no past record of involvement in militant activity. Police say the attacker was armed with a gun and knife and opened fire in a southern Israeli bus station, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 10 people. An Eritrean migrant was also killed in the attack after an Israeli security guard fired at him, apparently thinking he was an assailant. --- 9 a.m. An Israeli hospital official says an Eritrean migrant shot during an attack on a bus station has died of his wounds. Soroka Hospital spokeswoman Sharon Edri says the migrant died of his wounds late Sunday. Israeli officials say an Israeli soldier was also killed and several others hurt in the attack carried out by an Arab attacker armed with a gun and knife. Israeli police said officers at the bus station mistakenly opened fire on the Eritrean man during the attack, apparently thinking he was an assailant. Security camera footage of the incident on Israeli news sites showed an Israeli security guard shooting the man as he crawled on the ground. Israeli news sites said the man was kicked by bystanders as he lay in a pool of blood. About 34,000 Eritreans migrants are in Israel. They say they are fleeing persecution and conflict and seek refugee status. |
Biodun Iginla, BBC News
Monday, October 19, 2015
Police say attacker was Israeli Arab
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