At least four people were dead and two others injured in a stabbing incident in Israel‘s Be’er Sheva on Tuesday. The assailant was shot by a witness and his condition was not known. 

The unidentified suspect allegedly rammed his car into one of the victims and then exited the vehicle with a knife and went on to stab several people outside a shopping center.

“We heard a car hit something, like another car, and then we saw someone get out and start running with a knife, and then stabbing people,” an eyewitness told Kan News. 

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The assailant was then shot by a bus driver, who witnessed the attack.

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Speaking to Channel 12, the bus driver, Arthur Chaimov, said, “I saw people gathered and I saw someone near a vehicle with a knife, drawn out, brandishing it. I looked and thought, ‘Maybe he has a knife’…I wanted to double check, not to assume [wrongly] that he was a terrorist. I got out of the vehicle, I took my weapon, I got closer and then I saw he had a knife. I saw a man [lying] wounded. I told him several times: ‘I’m asking you to put down the knife. I won’t shoot you. He said ‘No.’”

“I told myself I was in danger, when he came in only a few meters from me, so I made a judgment call, what could I do. I had to shoot him,” he added. 

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While one of the victims died at the scene, five others were rushed to a local hospital. Of these, three people, including a 60-year-old man, a 40-year-old woman, and a 35-year-old woman, succumbed to injuries a short while later. Two of them remained hospitalised and were reported to be in critical condition.