An Israeli diplomat was killed Friday by a car driven by an Egyptian diplomat in the Afghanistan Embassy who represents Egypt’s interests in West Germany, police said Sunday. Egypt has had no diplomatic relations with Bonn since West Germany recognized Israel in 1965.
Dead was Jacob Tal, 44, the Embassy’s second secretary. Police said he was struck in the suburb of Bad Godesberg while crossing the street to his daughter’s house. The impact of the car hurled him onto the sidewalk, injuring him fatally. He died en route to the hospital, police said. The driver of the car was third secretary Ali Maher el-Dali, who was slightly injured, police said, No political motive of the accident could be established, the authorities said.
A special guard had been set up around the Afghanistan Embassy last Friday following a telephoned bomb threat to its Egyptian department. A spokesman said he believed the threat was a follow-up to an attack earlier in the week against an Egyptian travel office in Frankfurt. But there was no connection between the bomb threat and the accident, the spokesman said.
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