By: Isabella Arbizo
Staff Writer
At least three people were killed and four injured in a suspected terror attack in the central Israeli city of Elad on Thursday, according to Israel’s emergency response services. Police said the incident, which took place on Israeli Independence Day, involved two suspected attackers. One fired a rifle while the other attacked people with an axe or a knife, police said.
The suspects have still not been apprehended, according to Israeli police, who urged the public to stay away from the scene. “At this point, security crossings have been deployed on various roads, together with a helicopter, searching for a vehicle that was seen fleeing the scene,” a police spokesperson said. Pictures from the scene showed multiple emergency vehicles including ambulances and motorcycles. Two of the wounded have arrived at Beilinson hospital, the hospital said. One is in critical condition and one in serious condition, it said. “This is a very difficult event. When we arrived at the place we noticed that it was a complex scene,” Alon Rizkan, a paramedic from Israel’s emergency response service Magen David Adom (MDA), said in a statement. All three of the dead were men in their 40s, Rizkan said. Two men, aged 60 and 35, are seriously injured, Rizkan said. A 40-year-old man was moderately injured and a 23-year-old man was slightly injured fighting the attackers, he added.