Photos: Four people dead after botched bank robbery in Israel
May 20, 2013
A woman hostage is evacuated by Israeli security forces following a bank robbery that escalated into a hostage situation in the Israeli city of Beersheva on May 20, 2013. Four people were killed and three others wounded in a botched bank heist in southern Israel which ended when a robber who had held a hostage shot himself dead, police said. DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/Getty Images ( 519901472 )
Members of the media and police special forces stand outside a Bank Hapoalim branch after a shooting at the bank in the southern city of Beersheba May 20, 2013. A gunman shot dead four people execution-style in the bank in Israel on Monday after being refused an overdraft and cash from its automatic teller machine. The assailant, identified by media reports as a former paramilitary border policeman, killed himself after police raided the branch to free his hostages. REUTERS/Amir Cohen ( ISRAEL-BANK/ROBBERY )
An Israeli police forensics expert is seen through the glass doors of a Bank Hapoalim branch after a shooting at the bank in the southern city of Beersheba May 20, 2013. A gunman shot dead four people execution-style in the bank in Israel on Monday after being refused an overdraft and cash from its automatic teller machine. The assailant, identified by media reports as a former paramilitary border policeman, killed himself after police raided the branch to free his hostages. REUTERS/Amir Cohen ( ISRAEL-BANK/ROBBERY (UPDATE 1) )
An Israeli policeman stands guard at the scene of a shooting at a Bank Hapoalim branch in the southern city of Beersheba May 20, 2013. A gunman shot dead four people execution-style in the bank in Israel on Monday after being refused an overdraft and cash from its automatic teller machine. The assailant, identified by media reports as a former paramilitary border policeman, killed himself after police raided the branch to free his hostages. REUTERS/Amir Cohen ( ISRAEL-BANK/ROBBERY )
An Israeli woman is taken out of a bank in the town of Beersheba, Monday, May 20, 2013. A gunman stormed into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba Monday, killing four people in a gunfight and taking a hostage before killing himself, police said. (AP Photo/Dudu Greenspan) ( Mideast Israel Bank Heist )
Israeli security gather outside following a bank robbery that escalated into a hostage situation in the Israeli city of Beersheva, on May 20, 2013. Four people were killed and three others wounded in a botched bank heist in southern Israel which ended when a robber who had held a hostage shot himself dead, police said. DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/Getty Images ( 519899551 )
Categories: News, Syndicated
Tags: photo