JERUSALEM, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- An American tourist was killed Friday morning after he shot a hotel employee dead in the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld confirmed to Xinhua.
Israeli media reported that the American tourist had an argument with the victim, a hotel employee, and then grabbed a gun from a female security guard, shooting him to death.
Local anti-terror personnel were called to the scene and killed the shooter, the reports said. The cause for the argument and other details of the shooting incident are not immediately known.
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