At least two people were killed today after possible “terrorist attack”, at a small bus station in Kiryat Malaki, a city in southern Israel, a hospital and police said today.

“A terrorist arrived at a bus station, apparently in a car, and fired at several people, until he was neutralized by a civilian who was at the scene,” Israeli police said in a statement.

According to rescuers, six people were injured and taken to two hospitals. A spokesman for one hospital, Kaplan, told AFP that two of the wounded who were taken there succumbed to their injuries.

“Significant” police forces have been deployed in this small town located between Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, added Israeli police, who said they were looking for possible accomplices of the attacker.

“We have raised the national alert level,” said Israeli police spokesman Kobi Sabtai, who went to the scene of the attack, without giving details on the identity of the attacker.