Posted on 10/15/24
| News Source: Arutz-7
A man aged approximately 30 was killed Tuesday morning in a shooting attack near the Yavne Interchange in southern Israel.
First responders attempted to resuscitate the officer, who suffered bullet wounds to his chest, but he died on the way to the hospital. The terrorist has been eliminated.
According to reports, the terrorist arrived at the scene on foot, and opened fire at passing vehicles, until a civilian shot at him. The individual killed is reported to be a police officer.
Magen David Adom (MDA) Director General Eli Bin reported that five people suffered varying degrees of injury in the attack: One person was critically injured and later declared dead; one person suffered moderate injuries, and three others were lightly injured. Most of the victims were evacuated to Assuta Hospital in Ashdod.
Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot reported that a man of about 37 who was injured in the shooting attack on Highway 4 was evacuated to the hospital with a shooting injury to his thigh; his condition is moderate, and he is undergoing a series of tests.
Meanwhile, at the Nir Galim Junction near Ashdod, a second shooting was reported. In that shooting, a man of about 40 was lightly to moderately injured by flying glass, after a shot was fired towards his vehicle.
United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs Doron Sabah, Shmuel Bechor and Alexi Gretznikov who treated a critically injured man at the first scene, reported: "We provided initial treatment at the scene and performed CPR on a 30-year-old man in critical condition. We were also told that other first responders and a United Hatzalah ambulance team treated at two additional locations a person in light to moderate condition who was transported to the hospital by the United Hatzalah ambulance, and a lightly injured man. It was also reported that another driver was injured by shards of glass and continued driving to the Nir Galim intersection."