INTERNATIONAL: Two suspected Arab gunmen have killed two people in Israel on Sunday ,March 27, and were then shot dead, an ambulance service has said, as the U.S. secretary of state and three Arab foreign ministers have visited the country for a summit.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the shooting, in the city of Hadera, about 50 kilometres north of Tel Aviv.

It has occurred five days after an Arab citizen of Israelhas stabbed at least four people to death in the southern city of Beersheba, before he was fatally shot by a passerby.

Surveillance camera footage broadcast on Israeli television stations has showed two men opening fire with assault rifles on a main street in Hadera.

The Magen David Adom ambulance service has said two people were killed by the assailants. Police and the ambulance service have said the two gunmen were shot dead.