Knife attack in Tel Aviv: three injured, assailant killed

“The terrorist has been eliminated,” added Magen David Adom, the equivalent of the Red Cross in Israel, in a statement. Police did not immediately confirm the terrorist nature of the attack. An AFP journalist saw the body of a lifeless man at the scene of the attack.

Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital said in a statement that three stabbing victims had been admitted, “one of them in serious condition with a knife wound to the neck who was transferred to the operating room , and two other minor injuries, being treated in the emergency room. According to the Israeli channel i24News, a fourth person was also injured. The victims are said to be two 24-year-old men, one 28-year-old and a 59-year-old man.