2 shot dead outside Jewish museum in Washington: Local media

Two people were shot dead outside a Jewish museum in downtown Washington on Wednesday night, local media reported, with an Israeli diplomat said to be among the victims.

“The fatal shooting that took place outside the event that took place at the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC—in which Israeli embassy employees were also injured—is a depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism,” Israel’s envoy to the United Nations Danny Danon said in a statement.

“Harming diplomats and the Jewish community is crossing a red line.”