Hero mom killed in Tel Aviv terrorist shooting while shielding her 9-month-old baby
A new mom was among those killed when two terrorists went on a rampage near Tel Aviv, Israeli officials said Wednesday — saying she was gunned down while heroically saving her baby’s life.
“One of the victims from yesterday’s terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, Inbar Segev-Vigder, murdered while shielding her 9-month-old son Ari,” the State of Israel account wrote Wednesday.
“She saved his life. There are no words. Only heartbreak.”
Segev-Vigder and six others were murdered when the two Palestinian terrorists opened fire and stabbed victims at a train station in the central Israeli city of Jaffa late Tuesday.
The terror attack came just minutes before Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles into Israeli territory in retaliation for last week’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and several other top officials of the terror group.
Surveillance video captured the attackers jumping off the train armed with a gun and knife.
The bodies of several blood-soaked victims could be seen strewn on the ground nearby and inside the light rail carriage.
Segev-Vigder, a 33-year-old personal trainer and Pilates instructor, is survived by her husband and son, the Times of Israel reported.
Meanwhile, another slain victim was identified as 30-year-old Shahar Goldman — a professional dancer who got married just last year, according to the outlet.
Revital Bronstein, 24, Nadia Sokolenko, 40, and Ilia Nozadze, 42, were also killed.
The seventh victim hadn’t yet been named publicly.
At least 16 others were injured in the terror rampage, Israeli police said.
The two terrorists, who were from the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Hebron, were shot and killed by security guards and armed pedestrians, authorities added.
The men had no prior arrests, but one had been involved in disturbing the peace at a past demonstration.
With Post wires
