Eight people have been arrested in last week's shooting attack on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania's capital that wounded three passers-by, a police official said Thursday. The eight were arrested individually over several days, said the police official, who agreed tell about the arrests only if given anonymity because was is not authorized to speak to the press. He said one is an Algerian national. Several witnesses to Friday's attack said a group of men gathered outside a restaurant near the embassy, then pulled weapons from their clothes and attacked the embassy while screaming "Allahu Akbar," or "God is Great." Three bystanders were wounded in the gunbattle with embassy guards.

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