Police in Israel’s Emakim district reported on Wednesday afternoon that a guard at the Ramat Yishai shopping center was attacked by a suspect who approached the guard station in a vehicle. The guard, who was injured and felt threatened, fired at the suspect, who fled the scene in the vehicle.
Police report the injured guard was transported to a local hospital for treatment of his non-specified injures. Police began a search for the vehicle that fled the scene. No additional information is available at the time of this report.
Ramat Yishai is located in the Northern District, about four kilometers (2.5 miles) east of Kiryat Tivon.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)