Assailant shot dead after killing 4 in southern Israel: police

STORY: Assailant shot dead after killing 4 in southern Israel: police DATELINE: March 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:46 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of scenes of the attack STORYLINE: Four people were killed on Tuesday by an Arab assailant who was later shot dead by a passerby in Israel's southern city of Beersheba, Israeli police said. The assailant fatally stabbed a woman in a gas station after exiting his car near a shopping mall in Beersheba. He then went back to his car and ran over a bike rider before stepping out of the car again to fatally stab another man and woman, the police said in a statement. The state-owned Kan TV news reported that the attacker is an Israeli Arab citizen, a Bedouin resident of the village of Hura in the Negev Desert. He previously served prison terms for alleged ties to the terror group the Islamic State. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which is the deadliest in Israel in the past few years. Police spokesman Eli Levy told Channe