A car bombing wounded at least four people in Tel Aviv on Saturday, and a man was shot dead in the northern city of Umm al-Fahm.

Both incidents were believed to be criminal, and not nationalistic, in nature.

A car exploded Saturday afternoon on Kaminksa Street in Tel Aviv’s Kiryat Shalom neighborhood just before 1 p.m. Police assessed that the explosion was due to a bomb planted under the vehicle that exploded. A second car, next to the one targeted, reportedly caught fire amid the incident.

The explosion seriously wounded a 24-year-old man and another man aged about 30, and lightly wounded two others, according to Hebrew media.

“There was a lot of damage in the area. When we got to the scene, people pointed us to the wounded, who were sitting outside the vehicle, which was on fire,” a paramedic said.

“We immediately gave them lifesaving medical attention, including dressing their wounds and stopping the bleeding, and quickly transferred them to the hospital.”

All of the wounded were transferred to Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv.

Police arrived at the scene and arrested one man in connection with the incident.

“The explosion was connected to a conflict in the northern region that’s known to us in the police. The wounded belonged to an organization in the north,” said Haim Sargaroff, of the Israel Police’s Tel Aviv district.

“This was an assassination attempt via a significant bomb that was placed under the vehicle, at a time when many citizens were walking around here,” he said.

The suspect, whom police arrested in the area of the incident, “is very well known to us,” Sargaroff added.

Also on Saturday, around noon, a man in his 70s was shot dead in the northern city of Umm al-Fahm.

Hebrew media identified the victim as Fursan Mahajna.

He was transferred to HaEmek Medical Center in Afula while seriously wounded. There, he was pronounced dead.

Police said in a statement that officers from the Umm al-Fahm station arrived at the site and immediately began gathering evidence together with forensic investigators.

The officers set up roadblocks and searched the area to locate suspects, the police said.

Since the start of the year, 166 Arab Israelis have been killed in violent incidents, according to the Abraham Initiatives NGO, amid a surging crime wave that has been plaguing Arab locales in recent years.