Shabtai declined to comment further on the suspect, but Israeli media identified the attacker as a 34-year-old Arab man from the nearby Bedouin town of Hura. He said the attacker appeared to have acted alone. Israel police chief Kobi Shabtai told reporters at a press briefing at the scene that the incident was "an abominable killing spree by a terrorist known to security services" who had previously served prison time. Amateur video footage posted online appeared to show armed bystanders shooting and killing the attacker at the scene. Police said the attacker careened his car into a cyclist and stabbed five people across a swath of the city center. JERUSALEM - A knife-wielding Arab man on Tuesday killed four people and seriously wounded two others in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba before he was shot dead by armed residents, police said. A knife-wielding Arab man killed several people and seriously wounded others in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, a rampage officials called a terror attack with nationalist motives. Policemen work at the scene of an attack in Beersheba, southern Israel, on Tuesday.
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