Tel Aviv: Four persons were killed on Wednesday night when two attackers identified as Palestinian militants opened fire at a popular food and shopping complex near the Israeli Defense Ministry in capital Tel Aviv.

The attackers were captured, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, with one shot and the second arrested at the upscale Sarona market, CNN reported. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called "a savage crime, murder in the heart of Tel Aviv".