Two dead in suspected stabbing attack in Israel

Two people have been killed in what police say is a “continuing terrorist attack” in northern Israel.

Police said the attacker ran over a pedestrian in the eastern town of Beit Shean, then continued on his way before stabbing a woman near Ein Harod, about 12.5 km to the west.

The attacker was shot and injured by a civilian passerby, the statement said, adding that the suspect was a resident of the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom said the victim killed in Beit Shean was a 68-year-old man and the stabbing victim in Ein Harod was an 18-year-old woman.