Stabbing attack leaves one dead in Israel

A stabbing attack in the northern Israeli city of Haifa left a 70-year-old man dead and three others injured, Reuters reported.

The attack took place at a bus station on Monday, Israeli police said, adding that the suspected assailant was killed.

“Paramedics and EMTs have pronounced the death of a man around 70 years old and are providing medical treatment to and evacuating four injured individuals,” Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service said.

It said a man and a woman, both aged about 30 years, as well as a 15-year-old boy, were seriously injured.

Earlier, Eli Bin, head of emergency rescue service Magen David Adom, told Israeli media that four people were wounded in the stabbing attack, one of whom later succumbed to his injuries.

Security guards shot and killed the assailant, a police spokesperson said.

Police said that the assailant was an Israeli citizen from a nearby Arab Druze town who had returned from abroad in May, adding that the attack was still being investigated.