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A-G urges compensation for Eritrean man killed in attack

28 October 2015, 4:45 pm
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Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein recommends that the family of the Eritrean man who was killed in the Beersheba bus station after he was mistaken for a terrorist be compensated, the Ynet news website reports.

Haftom Zarhum, aged 29, died in the hospital after he was shot by a security guard who thought he had just taken part in a terror attack that left an Israeli soldier dead and another 11 people wounded. While writhing on the floor, he was repeatedly beaten by an enraged mob.

Since Zarhum entered the country illegally, he was not recognized by Israel as a terror victim. Weinstein, however, maintains that his family ought to receive monetary compensation from the state for their loss.

Haftom Zarhum, 29, died of his wounds on October 19, 2015, a day after he was shot and beaten by a mob that mistook him for an assailant in the terror attack in Beersheba on October 18 in which IDF soldier Omri Levy, 19, was killed. (Courtesy)
Haftom Zarhum, 29, died of his wounds on October 19, 2015, a day after he was shot and beaten by a mob that mistook him for an assailant in the terror attack in Beersheba on October 18 in which IDF soldier Omri Levy, 19, was killed. (Courtesy)

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