Two police officers were injured in a terrorist attack in the central Arab-Israeli town of Kafr Qasem early Friday.
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Israeli media reports said the officers were first shot at and then hit by a car. Police named the attacker, who was shot dead, as Naim Badir, a 20-something resident of the town.
According to reports, Badir called police to the scene and then started firing at them; he then tried to ran them over with his vehicle.
Law enforcement found a Carlo submachine gun and Molotov cocktails at the building site where the assailant waited in ambush. A knife was also found in the vehicle.
The officers, who were lightly hurt, were hospitalized.
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