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Officials say two helicopters have crashed midair in southern New Jersey on Sunday, killing one person and leaving another critically injured. Hammonton Police Chief Kevin Friel said rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11:25 a.m. on Sunday. Video from the scene shows a helicopter spinning rapidly to the ground. Police and fire crews subsequently extinguished flames that engulfed one of the helicopters. One person was killed and another was transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. Friel said the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the crash.

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Police say that two people have been killed and at least two more injured in northern Israel in a car-ramming and stabbing attack by a Palestinian man. Police said that the attacker first crashed his vehicle into people in the northern city of Beit Shean on Friday, killing a 68-year-old man. The assailant then sped onto a highway where he fatally stabbed a teenage woman and injured another person. Israel’s rescue services said that both victims were pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. Two other people were injured. The attacker was hospitalized with injuries and Israel's military started an operation in the attacker's hometown of Qabatiya in the West Bank.