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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Netanyahu 'shocked' by brutal murder of Israeli family - Summary

Tel Aviv - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed Sunday "deep pain and shock" over the "horrifying" murder of a family of six - two grandparents, two parents, and two young children - in Israel this weekend. The six victims were found early Saturday morning, stabbed to death in a partially-burned out apartment in the city of Rishon Lezion, south of Tel Aviv. The youngest victim was aged just three months.

The case has shocked Israel, with police calling it the worst murder in the country for decades.

The family have no criminal past according to Israeli police.

Netanyahu at his weekly cabinet meeting asked public security minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch to update him on the progress of the investigation into solving "this terrible act".

Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told the German Press Agency.

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