Five killed in Israeli election shooting

IN an election-day attack, two Palestinian gunmen opened fire yesterday at a Likud Party office and at passengers in a nearby bus terminal in the northern Israeli town of Beit Shean. Five Israelis were killed and dozens wounded in the attack.

The gunmen were killed in an ensuing firefight with police, security guards and armed bystanders. Initial witness reports said a third gunmen fled to a nearby building but searchers did not find anyone else.

The shootings occurred the same day three suicide bombers attacked an Israeli-owned resort hotel in Kenya, killing 12 other people, and at least two missiles were fired at, but missed, an Israeli airliner taking off from an airport in nearby Mombasa, Kenya.