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WORLD NEWSSaturday 9 January 2016
Arab gunman dies in shootout a week after killing 3 Israelis
IAN DEITCH ing, Samri said. Israeli policemen stand on guard in the village of Arara, northern Israel, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. An
Associated Press Witness Hakim Younis told Arab gunman who killed three Israelis in Tel Aviv has died in a shootout with officers in Arara,
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Arab Channel 10 TV that he saw police said Friday, a week after a massive manhunt that put Israelis on edge while the killer was
gunman who killed three some of the shootout from on the loose.
Israelis in Tel Aviv last week his home.
was slain Friday in a shoot- “I was sitting on my balco- (AP Photo/Gil Eliyahu-Jinipix)
out with police special ny with my cousin ... when
forces, authorities said, fol- suddenly shooting began assailants are usually swiftly man with short dark hair, entrance, placed his back-
lowing a massive manhunt — hundreds of bullets, like captured or killed. But the glasses and a black bag pack on a shopping cart,
that put Israelis on edge in a war,” Younis said, add- Tel Aviv shootings left many over his shoulder was seen and removed a gun from
amid months of near-daily ing that he then went in- people jittery because scooping up nuts from the it before stepping outside
Palestinian attacks on civil- side. Large numbers of se- Milhem, who was consid- health food store’s bulk and opening fire into the
ians and soldiers. curity forces had entered ered armed and danger- food section, putting them bar.
The gunman was hiding the town earlier and had ous, was on the loose for a in a plastic bag, and then He then was seen running
in a building in his home- told residents to stay in their week. emptying them back. He away along busy Dizengoff
town of Arara in northern homes, he added. In the security video, a then walked to the store’s Street.
Israel, said police spokes- Alon Ben-David, the TV sta-
woman Luba Samri. As the tion’s defense analyst, said
special forces closed in on special forces with dogs
him in the residential area, had searched the town.
he came out shooting, she Milhem shot a police dog
said. that had entered a build-
Authorities had identified ing as part of the search,
the gunman as Nashat Mil- he added, and that ex-
hem who opened fire at posed his location, prompt-
a bar on a busy Tel Aviv ing troops to close in.
street on Jan. 1, killing two Ben-David said it appears
people and wounding six that several people had
others in chilling video that helped Milhem hide, assist-
was caught on security ing him with food and oth-
cameras at a health food er essentials, following last
store next door. He later week’s attack. He said the
also shot and killed an Arab gunman had been hiding
taxi driver. there all week.
Milhem fired at police Fri- Israelis are used to resuming
day with the same gun he their daily routines quickly
used in the Tel Aviv shoot- after an attack because
Egypt:
2 Austrians, 1 Swede wounded in resort attack
HAMZA HENDAWI All three wounded tour- ate of the extremist Islamic
Associated Press ists were taken to hospital, State group. The insurgen-
CAIRO (AP) — Two suspect- where one was treated cy has been centered at
ed militants stabbed and and discharged, the state- the northern part of the
wounded three foreign ment said. There was no Sinai Peninsula but has fre-
tourists — two Austrians and word on the condition of quently spilled over into the
a Swede — at a hotel in the other two. mainland since the ouster
Egypt’s Red Sea resort city Security officials had initially in 2013 of the Islamist Presi-
of Hurghada on Friday, the said the attackers wound- dent Mohammed Morsi.
Interior Ministry said. ed two tourists, a Dane and The Hurghada attack is
Security forces opened fire a German, but such dis- a dangerous precedent
at the two assailants, killing crepancies are common in since Egypt’s Red Sea re-
one and seriously wound- the immediate aftermath sorts have done better than
ing the other, according to of terror attacks. elsewhere in the country
a ministry statement. The attack came just hours in withering the slump suf-
The ministry said two men after the local affiliate of fered by the vital tourism
armed with knives had the Islamic State claimed sector in the five years of
entered the outdoor res- responsibility for an attack turmoil since an uprising
taurant at the front of the a day earlier on a hotel in toppled longtime ruler Hos-
seaside, four-star Bella Vista Cairo near the Giza Pyra- ni Mubarak.
Hotel and attacked the mids. No one was hurt in the Thursday’s Giza attack was
tourists. Thursday attack in which a also significant in that it
The ministry identified the group of over a dozen men targeted a hotel in Cairo,
slain attacker as 21-year- fired flares and birdshot at a heavily policed city of
old Mohammed Hassan a security post outside ho- some 18 million residents,
Mohammed Mahfouz, a tel where Arab Israeli tour- at a time when security
student from Cairo’s neigh- ists were staying. appeared to relatively im-
borhood of Giza. Both at- Egypt has been battling an prove in recent months
tackers, it said, carried insurgency by Islamic mili- after a series of bomb at-
knives and pellet guns. tants led by the local affili- tacks.
