An Israeli security guard shot dead a Jewish visitor at Jerusalem's Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, yesterday, apparently mistaking him for a Palestinian militant.
Public radio said that police were seeking to have the guard remanded in custody.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that he was being taken in front of a magistrate, but had no further details.
"There was a Jewish guy, an Israeli guy, who was in the bathroom area," Rosenfeld told AFP.