Taxi Driver found shot dead in Ashdod

22 March 2008

Palestine-A 50-year-old man was found shot in a taxi on Hana Szenesh Street in Ashdod on Friday evening. Magen David Adom (MDA) members were forced to pronounce him dead upon arriving at the scene.

Police said that the man was murdered by an unknown suspect and added that an investigation into the incident had been opened. An eyewitness told police that he had seen the murder from the window of his home.

Ashdod District Police who were alerted to the scene closed off the area to the public.

Last month a taxi driver was seriously wounded when attackers threw him from his vehicle before driving away. The driver, Yaakov Mizrahi, was found by passersby in a Rishon Letzion street while it rained. Mizrahi lost one of his eyes in the attack.

In other news, a 20-year-old woman was shot in the backyard of her home in Umm el-Fahm.

Her husband took her to the town's medical center in critical condition just before she passed away.

During an investigation the man told police he did not know who shot his wife.

The woman's brother later admitted that he accidentally shot his sister while he was playing with a gun he was holding without a license.