Gunman kills Israeli soldier, wounds 10 others
October 19, 2015 23:02
A man went on a shooting rampage at a bus station in southern Israel on Sunday, killing an Israeli soldier. He wounded 10 more people before police shot him dead.
Though the attack in Beer Sheva comes at a time of increased violence between Israelis and Palestinians, it isn't clear if the gunman was motivated by those tensions.
The gunman, Mohannad Al-Oqbi, was an Arab Bedouin citizen of Israel. Bedouins are their own ethnic subgroup, and some, but not all, Bedouins identify as Palestinian.
Beer Sheva is located in Israel and not in Palestinian territory.
Police have not discussed a motive, but some Bedouin groups have been at odds, at times violently, with Israeli authorities over issues of their own, according to the website of the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
In the chaos of the shootout, a security guard shot an Eritrean migrant, who was then beaten by a mob and later died.
Police say the guard had mistaken him for a second attacker.
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