Police say they discovered the body of a six-year-old boy in his home in the central city of Herzliya and are investigating the incident as murder. Media reports say his mother was arrested while wandering the city with an ax.
Police say a large number of officers were dispatched to the scene after the body was found with “signs of violence.”
An ax taken from a woman who injured a security guard at a mall in Herzliya (Israel Police)
Hebrew media say that police are investigating if the killing is related to an incident earlier in the day in the city where a woman armed with an ax injured a security guard in Herzliya’s Seven Stars mall.
The woman, 33, was reportedly wandering around outside the mall covered in blood and waving the ax.
The guard was lightly injured and police detained the woman.
The Walla news site reports that the woman is the mother of the murdered boy.
No other details are immediately available.
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