Attacker rams car into soldier and stabs him, kills elderly man in Israel

One man was killed and another wounded in a combined ramming, stabbing and shooting attack by a lone assailant at a bus stop in northern Israel on Monday, emergency services said.

Police said that the assailant was a 25-year-old Israeli citizen from the country’s Arab minority. He rammed his car into an Israeli soldier standing at the bus stop, then got out of his car, stabbed him and seized his weapon.

After that, the assailant started shooting at motorists driving past. An 85-year-old man was killed by the gunfire at his car, police said. Israel’s ambulance service pronounced him dead at the scene.

The soldier was badly wounded and taken to hospital, it said. Police officers shot the assailant dead, a spokesperson said. He resided in a town near the site of the attack, police said in a statement.