Child seriously wounded in suspected arson in southern Israel

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A 12-year-old child was seriously wounded Saturday when a store in the Bedouin town of Hura was targeted in a suspected arson.

The child, Issa Abu al-Kiyan was rushed to a hospital in Be’er Sheva with second- and third-degree burns. Police said they have opened an investigation into the incident.

The child, his relatives initially said, was wounded when grenades were thrown at a car-repair shop and the flames spread to a nearby telephone store ablaze as the child was in it. The council head, who owns the car-repair shop, said that he had no knowledge of such an incident. He also noted the shop was not damaged.

On Friday, two children died from a heat stroke after being left alone in a locked vehicle in the Bedouin town of Hura in southern Israel.

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