Woman killed and 10 injured in shooting in southern Israel

Woman killed and 10 injured in shooting in southern Israel

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A 25-year-old woman has died and 10 others have been injured in a shooting in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, local authorities said.

The gunman was shot dead at the scene after what police described as a "suspected terror attack" at the city's central bus station.

Footage posted online, which the BBC has not been able to verify, showed dead or injured people inside a McDonald’s.

Israel's ambulance service said medics are treating ten victims, some of whom suffered gunshot wounds.

One woman is in a “moderate to serious” condition and four others are in a “moderate condition”, the ambulance service said.

They have been taken to the nearby Soroka Hospital.

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Shortly after the attack, Israel’s transport minister Miri Regev called for the families of “terrorists” to be deported from the country.

“The time has come for a deterrent punishment to prevent the attacks on Israeli territory,” she wrote on X.

Last week, seven people were killed in a shooting and knife attack in Tel Aviv after a gunman opened fire at members of the public in the Jaffa area.

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Israeli authorities have said they are on high alert across the country ahead of the one year anniversary of Hamas’s assault on southern Israel on 7 October last year, which triggered the current Gaza war.

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