A car exploded in northern Italy early on Thursday, killing the 33-year-old Kuwaiti driver in what police said appeared to be more of a suicide bid rather than an attack on a nearby synagogue. "We think we’re dealing with a suicide... It was more of an act of desperation than a subversive one," a policeman in Modena, northern Italy, told Reuters. "The man had shown uneasiness and problems relating to people in the past." Jordanian-born Al Catib Muhammad Shafir Ammay, who had Kuwaiti citizenship, set himself on fire about 5 a.m. Police approached, and the car, which ran on flammable liquid propane gas (LPG), exploded, police said. No one else was hurt. The blast blew out windows and garage doors of nearby buildings. Police said the car was parked on a small, side street about 50 to 80 meters (yards) from the synagogue’s main entrance.
Probably just a suicide, or he may have been thinking about running the car into the synagogue and changed his mind when he saw the cops. We may know more after the investigation. |