California synagogue attacked during Jewish Passover: one dead, three wounded

A 19-year-old man claiming to be anti-Semitic and Islamophobic killed a woman and wounded three, including a rabbi, by automatically attacking a synagogue near San Diego (Southern California), a crime promptly denounced by Donald Trump. as "motivated by hate".

The attack on Saturday, the last day of the Jewish Passover festivities, targeted the Jewish community of Poway, a town of about 50,000 inhabitants. It comes exactly six months after the one that killed eleven people in the Pittsburgh Synagogue.

"We had four gunshot wounds and one of the people died," Mayor Steve Vaus told MSNBC Television.

A 60-year-old woman died from her injuries, while the wounded are a minor, the rabbi and a man in her 30s, said San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore. during a press conference. Their days are not in danger.

Two Israelis - an 8-year-old girl and her uncle - were wounded in the attack, a spokeswoman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry Emmanuel Nashon said, adding that they were in "good" condition.....