A woman was reportedly killed and ten others were injured after a gunman opened fire at a bus station in Beersheba, Israel, on Sunday, emergency services said. The attacker was shot dead by soldiers during the incident. He was identified as a member of the Bedouin minority from Israel’s desert Negev region, as per media reports.

According to reports, an emergency service provider Magen David Adom said, “Paramedics have pronounced a 25-year-old female deceased, and are evacuating 10 casualties.”

The police have termed the shooting as a terrorist attack, however, they did not reveal his identity.

Israel’s ambulance service said that about ten victims are undergoing treatment, and some have suffered gunshot wounds.

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One woman among the injured is in a ‘moderate to serious’ condition. Meanwhile, four others are in a ‘moderate condition,’ the ambulance service stated.

Following the attack, Israel’s transport minister Miri Regev called for the families of ‘terrorists’ to be deported from the country to prevent attacks on Israeli territory.

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.

(With BBC Inputs)

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