Israeli police say one killed in bus station knife attack

An elderly man has been killed and four other people have been wounded in what police say was a terrorist stabbing attack in the northern Israeli city of Haifa.

It happened at the HaMifratz Central train and bus station, and the attacker was shot dead at the scene by security guards, police said.

The police said the attacker was an Israeli Druze man from the town of Shfaram who had recently returned from abroad. Such an attack by a member of Israel’s Druze community is rare.

The Druze are an ethnic and religious group whose faith is an offshoot of Shia Islam. About 150,000 live in Israel and the occupied Golan Heights, comprising about 1.5% of the population.

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