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Among the victims of Tuesday terrorist attack in Tel Aviv was Inbar Segev-Vigder, a new mother who died protecting her nine-month old baby.
Segev-Vigder, 33, and six others were killed when two Palestinian terrorists shot and stabbed people at a train station in Jaffa, an ancient port city that is now part of Tel Aviv. Sixteen more were wounded in the attack.
Authorities said another of the dead was 30-year-old Shahar Goldman, a professional dancer who got married just last year. Revital Bronstein, 24, Nadia Sokolenko, 40, and Ilia Nozadze, 42, were also killed. The other victims have not yet been named.
Police named the terrorists as Muhammad Masek, 19, who was killed, and Ahmed Himoni, 25, who was seriously injured. Both were residents of Hebrona city in the West Bank some 70 kilometres from Tel Aviv. They were armed with an “M16 weapon, cartridges and a knife,” the authorities said.
The knife and gun attack occurred just ahead of a large-scale missile attack from Iran. No group has yet claimed responsibility.