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One dead and 10 wounded in Beersheva terror attack

Terrorist was reportedly Arab-Israeli citizen

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Israeli security and rescue personnel at the scene of the terrorist attack at Beersheva Central Bus Station (Credit: United Hatzalah)

One person was killed and 10 people wounded on Sunday afternoon in a combined shooting and stabbing near the central bus station in Beersheva, according to Israeli police.

“A report was received at Magen David Adom’s 101 emergency call centre in the Negev region of casualties near the central bus station in Beersheva,” MDA said.

A critically wounded woman in her 20s was pronounced dead by MDA first responders at the scene, the organisation reported.

MDA paramedics evacuated 10 victims to the city’s Soroka Medical Center, including one with moderate to serious wounds, four who sustained moderate wounds and five who were lightly wounded.

The terror rampage reportedly took place in three locations: at the central bus station, outside a nearby fast-food restaurant and on Shmaryahu Levin Street, where the terrorist was shot and killed.

Israeli police conformed that “the terrorist has been neutralised and many police forces of the southern district are on the scene.” Security forces were searching for possible accomplices to the attack, it said.

According to Israel’s Kan News public broadcaster, the terrorist was an Arab Israeli citizen from the Negev region.

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