Sderot man hurt in Kassam attack dies of wounds

A Sderot man who was critically wounded Tuesday morning after a Kassam rocket struck the factory where he worked died of his wounds on Tuesday night. The man, Yaakov Yaakovov, was hospitalized at Beersheba's Soroka Hospital for severe head trauma earlier in the day. Yaakovov was the second Kassam fatality in less than a week; Sderot resident Fatima Slutzker, 57, was killed by a Kassam last Wednesday.