Police arrested a man in Tel Aviv in connection with the murder of a foreign citizen whose headless body was found Thursday in the city’s south. Separately, a woman was shot dead in the central Arab town of Kafr Qasim.

The Tel Aviv murder victim, whose name has not been published, was about 30 years old, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said. According to Haaretz, he was an African national.

The murder scene was described by body retrieval service ZAKA as “extremely unusual,” with one volunteer calling it “cruel and devastating.”

The Kafr Qasim murder victim was identified in Arabic media as 28-year-old Tahlil Amer. A source familiar with the investigation was cited by Haaretz as saying the victim was shot while in her car, which then crashed into an adjacent wall.

She was discovered in her car in an olive grove outside town on Thursday, then taken to Petach Tikva’s Beilinson Hospital, where she was declared dead, police and medics said.

Four of Amer’s brothers, all in their 20s, were arrested Thursday night in connection with the murder. However, they were released on Friday due to a lack of evidence tying them to their sister’s........

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