Suspect shot dead after four Israelis killed in stabbing attack – police

Policemen work at the scene of an attack in Beersheba (AP)

A knife-wielding Arab man killed four people and seriously wounded two others in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba before he was killed by armed residents, police said.

Officers said the attacker drove his car into a cyclist and stabbed five people across a swathe of the city centre.