Police officers and forensic scientists work next to a car after an alleged attack.
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Tel Aviv According to paramedics, an Italian was killed and seven other tourists injured in a suspected attack in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on Friday evening. According to the police, the assassin rammed a group of people with his car near the beach promenade. The vehicle overturned. A police officer noticed that the driver was trying to pull out a gun. Then he shot him.
Ambulance sirens could be heard in the city center after the incident. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote on Twitter: “Horror and deep dismay at the cowardly attack in Tel Aviv.” Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani expressed his “firm condemnation of terrorism” in a tweet. Two of the injured are also Italians, he said on Italian television in the evening.
Just last month, one man was killed and two others injured in an attack by a Palestinian in downtown Tel Aviv. Two Israeli sisters were killed and their mother critically injured in an attack in the West Bank on Friday morning.
According to his office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the police to mobilize all reserve units of the border police. He also instructed the military to provide additional forces.
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