Police officer dies and five people are injured in shooting attack in southern Israel
A gunman opened fire on cars on a highway near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Tuesday, killing a police officer and wounding four people before being shot dead by a passerby, Israeli police said.
Preliminary investigations showed that the gunman approached the highway on foot, shot a police officer and continued shooting before being killed by an armed civilian.
“Not long ago, a terrorist arrived on the main road here near Tel Aviv, near Yavne, and started shooting at a police car, then continued and shot at other cars moving and injured our personnel,” said the spokesman. police voice Mirit Ben Mayor to reporters.
