A couple was shot dead in their car this morning in the Sharon region while driving to work, Israeli media report. Police have launched a manhunt for the suspects; the motive is under investigation.
A couple was shot to death in their car this morning in the Sharon district while driving to work, according to Hebrew-language media reports. The attack, a suspected drive-by shooting, occurred around the morning commute. Police have launched a manhunt; no arrests have been reported.
The Sharon shooting follows a separate double murder in Qalansawe earlier Thursday, which police attributed to a blood feud tied to an ongoing family conflict — as The Zioneer first reported at 06:25 Jerusalem. In that incident, a 62-year-old man was killed and a 50-year-old woman was critically wounded; the woman later died of her wounds, confirmed in our dispatch at 08:16 Jerusalem. The two events are geographically distinct, and investigators have not yet stated a link. The motive in the Sharon shooting remains unknown.
As The Zioneer reported on the Qalansawe case, police believe that attack was criminally motivated by a long-running family dispute. No such assessment has been offered for the Sharon shooting, and the suspects in both cases remain at large.
It remains unclear whether the Sharon shooting is connected to the Qalansawe blood feud, and the specific motive for the attack on the couple has not been disclosed by police.
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