Three killed, 35 hurt, in shopping centre suicide blast

A suicide bomber has blown himself up at the entrance to a shopping mall in the northern Israeli town of Netanya, killing at least three people and wounding 35, seven critically.

Ami Klein, a lawyer who witnessed the explosion from a nearby courthouse, told Israel Radio that the attacker reached the entrance to the mall but wasn’t able to enter. “The boom shook the entire courthouse,” he said.