A 52-year-old man was shot dead as he left a mosque on Sunday in Ras al-Tira village, southeast of Qalqiliya, police said. Unknown assailants opened fired on Yassin Maraaba as he stepped out of the mosque after prayers for the first day of Muslim festival Eid al-Adha, they said. Maaraba was taken to hospital but died of severe wounds. Police and intelligence forces have launched an investigation into the killing, police said.