Suspected murder in Lod: About six hours after Omar Shaaban was killed by an explosive device attached to his car in Lod, this evening (Wednesday) Ahmed Abu Hamed, 37 years old, also a resident of Lod, was killed after being shot in the head at short range, near his home on Yasmin Street, the corner of Halutz. Apparently there is no connection between the events. This is the third assassination since the morning hours in the Arab sector, when in the first case a 23-year-old young man from Lakia who is not known to the police was shot at close range.
The man who was shot this evening was located by an MDA team that arrived at the scene without signs of life and suffering from penetrating injuries. The police have opened an investigation and are checking whether there is a connection to an incident that occurred earlier in the city, during which, as mentioned, Abu Shaaban was eliminated. The background to a criminal incident.
An emergency medic from the MDA’s motorcycle unit, Mandi Amitai, said: “When we arrived, the injured man was lying on the sidewalk unconscious without a pulse and without breathing. We performed medical tests, he was without signs of life, and we had to determine his death.”