The assault came about at a bus station, police say, killing a 70-year-old man and injuring three others.
A 70-year-old man has been killed and three others wounded in a stabbing assault within the northern Israeli metropolis of Haifa, officers stated.
The assault came about at a bus station on Monday, Israeli police stated, including that the suspected assailant was killed.
“Paramedics and EMTs have pronounced the dying of a person round 70 years outdated and are offering medical therapy to and evacuating 4 injured people,” Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service stated.
It stated a person and a lady, each aged about 30 years, in addition to a 15-year-old boy, had been critically injured.
Earlier, Eli Bin, head of emergency rescue service Magen David Adom, informed Israeli media that 4 folks had been wounded within the stabbing assault, considered one of whom later succumbed to his accidents.
It was not instantly clear who killed the attacker, whose id was not instantly identified.
The AFP information company stated its journalists, who arrived after the wounded had been evacuated, noticed the attacker’s physique on the bottom beneath a blanket.
Pictures posted on social media additionally confirmed a number of emergency personnel tending to the injured, who had been seen mendacity on the bottom, as a number of ambulances had been parked close by.
Israeli police label as “terrorist” assaults these related to the Israeli-Palestinian battle.
The assault got here as negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas over Gaza’s ceasefire stalled after the deal’s first part ended over the weekend.
On Sunday, Israel blocked the entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza after a disagreement with Hamas over extending the ceasefire.
