Suicide bomber motivated by daughter's and friend's death: Relatives

The young Palestinian suicide bomber who blew up a bakery in an Israeli resort today, killing himself and three other people, was unemployed, despondent over the death of a newborn daughter and driven to avenge his best friend’s killing by Israeli troops, relatives said.

Mohammed Siksik’s apparent depression was in contrast to the joyful mood outside his house after his fiery death in the southern Israeli city of Eilat.