Six killed in shooting and knife attack in Tel Aviv

Six radical person been killed successful a shooting and weapon onslaught successful Tel Aviv, constabulary successful Israel person confirmed.

At slightest 9 others were reported to person been injured, and respective are successful a captious condition.

Police said the onslaught began successful a obstruction carriage and continued connected the platform. Images posted connected societal media showed the gunman shooting astatine bystanders successful the Jaffa area.

Police said 2 attackers were "neutralised" by members of the nationalist and described the motive arsenic "terror".

The identities of the perpetrators person not been released. Some Israeli media outlets earlier reported the decease toll arsenic eight, though it is unclear if this included the attackers.

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The shooting occurred soon earlier an Iranian rocket onslaught against Israel began.

Police astatine the country were seen taking screen arsenic missiles and aerial defence rockets flew implicit the metropolis and aerial raid sirens blared.

Witnesses described the shooting, including Benjamin Ratzon, who told the Reuters quality agency: "People were connected the crushed and they told maine to crook down.

"I saw the violent facing me. He wanted to bash thing and the information forces arrived to the country and they ran towards him."

Another witnesser told the Jerusalem Post they initially mistook the gunfire for fireworks earlier realising "it was thing overmuch worse".

They added: "There were galore gunshots. We dropped to the floor, and radical were crying. I saw idiosyncratic bleeding connected the ground.”

A store proprietor said they rapidly closed their shutters upon seeing "crowds of radical moving and shouting 'terror attack'".

Haartez quoted an eyewitness who was astatine a synagogue astatine the clip of the attack.

"Among the worshippers were medics who unpaid astatine the MDA (Israel's ambulance service).

"We treated a antheral who was wounded successful the synagogue and past ran to the thoroughfare to assistance others who were wounded."