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Young woman dies of her wounds after West Bank knife attack

January 26, 2016 09:34
Shlomit Krigman (Photo: Facebook)

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Jessica Weinstein,

Jessica Weinstein

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A 23-year-old injured in a knife attack at a market in the West Bank settlement of Beit Horon on Monday has died of her wounds.

Shlomit Krigman arrived at Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem in a critical condition but deteriorated overnight and died in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to a statement from the hospital. She would have turned 24 next week.

Another woman in her 50s was also injured in the attack, but only lightly.

Both assailants - identified as Ibrahim Al’an, 23, from the West Bank Palestinian village of Beit Ur al-Tahta, and Hassin Abu Gush, 17, from the Qalandiya refugee camp near Jerusalem - were shot and killed by a security guard as they attempted to flee the scene.