Four police officers were injured, one of them seriously, in a suspected terror ramming near the central town of Kochav Yair, close to the Green Line, overnight Tuesday.
After striking the group of four officers near Kochav Yair Junction, the suspect drove to the nearby Checkpoint 109, where he attempted to stab the security forces on site, who managed to “neutralize” him, police said.
In addition to a 23-year-old seriously wounded officer who was taken to a nearby hospital, another cop, 46, was moderately injured and two were lightly wounded, medical authorities said.
The suspected terrorist was pronounced dead at the scene, police said, adding that they had determined that the attacker had acted alone. He was named in Hebrew media as Waheb Sabita, a 26-year-old resident of the neighboring Arab Israeli town of Tira.
In a statement, Sabita’s family said that the suspect’s brother had reported to police that Waheb was having a psychotic attack and had threatened to commit suicide 10 minutes before the attack took place.
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