Police say they arrested six people suspected of involvement in a gang-related shootout yesterday evening in Afula.
The gunfight left no one injured but thoroughly rattled residents of the northern city, some of whom tell Hebrew outlets that they initially assumed the shooting was a large-scale terror attack.
“We sat in a shelter for almost an hour until we realized [the shooting] was criminal,” says an anonymous Afula resident to Ynet.
In reality, the shooting took place as part of an ongoing gang dispute, with some of those arrested hailing from nearby Sulam, according to Hebrew media.
Police received reports of the incident at around 7 p.m. and managed to arrest one suspect soon after opening their investigation that evening. The other five were detained earlier today, a spokesman says. A car thought to have been used in the shootout was also seized by law enforcement.
Based on their findings, police say they will request this evening to extend the suspects’ detentions before the Nazareth Magistrate’s Court.
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