Tourist dies, 4 hurt in Eilat terror attack

[Suzette]

One woman was killed and four other people were wounded yesterday when a terrorist opened fire at the Arava Yitzhak Rabin border terminal near Eilat. The victims were members of a Ecuadorean tourist group entering Israel from Jordan en route to Eilat.

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The gunman, who slipped through the Jordanian border terminal, fired a number of bursts of automatic fire before Israeli security guards at the site killed him in no-man's land some 20 meters from the Israeli side of the Yitzhak Rabin Crossing.

The gunman, Ahmed Jahid, 37, a Palestinian from Jordan, arrived at the Jordanian terminal in a truck delivering calves from Aqaba to the
Palestinian Authority. He got out of his truck, which he parked some 50 meters from the Israeli side, carrying a Kalashnikov rifle concealed under a blanket.

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Israeli security forces launched a search of the area, fearing more terrorists may have been involved in the incident. The initial
investigation into the attack revealed Israeli security officials at the border crossing acted according to regulations.

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