Indian Teen Death
Teen stabbed to death in Israel less than a year after he migrated from India
A teen, who had recently immigrated to Israel from India with his family, was stabbed to death in Kiryat Shmona city on Thursday, media reports said on Saturday.
According to reports, he was stabbed after a fight broke out at a party.
Yoel Lehingahel, 18, had traveled north from his home in Nof Hagalil to visit a friend and fellow immigrant from India, reports The Times of Israel.
Lehingahel attended a birthday party in the city, where, according to Meir Paltiel who works with the community of Indian Jewish immigrants to Israel, a fight involving more than 20 teens broke out.
“Yoel was supposed to come home for Shabbat, but in the morning [Friday] at almost 7 a.m. a friend of his called [the family] and told them there had been a fight last night and that Yoel was injured and in hospital,” Paltiel told Ynet as quoted by the newspaper.
“The family didn’t even manage to leave for the hospital in Safed before they were told he had died," Paltiel said.
Police arrested a 15-year-old resident of the nearby town of Chatzor Haglilit who they suspect was involved in the incident. Later Friday, they said they had detained another seven youths, aged between 13 and 15, reports The Times of Israel.
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