The Department of Justice is investigating the Washington, DC, shooting that killed two Israeli Embassy staffers as an act of terrorism and a hate crime, as details continue to emerge about the violent act,

Two Israeli embassy staff have been shot dead outside a Jewish museum in downtown Washington DC, officials sayThe man and woman were attacked while leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum and the incident appears targeted, sources tell the BBC's US partner CBSIsrael's ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, says the shooting happened outside an event at the museum and it was a "depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism"A spokesman for the Israeli embassy confirms that two staff members were shot "at close range" Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead near Jewish museum in Washington DC