DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- United Arab Emirates says police have arrested 3 Uzbek nationals for the killing of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi.

Turkish security forces reportedly arrested the three Uzbek suspects in the killing of a rabbi in the United Arab Emirates as they left an airport in Istanbul.

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Israeli intelligence is investigating the disappearance of Israeli-Moldovan citizen Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the United Arab Emirates in what is being called a "terrorist incident."

The United Arab Emirates says police have arrested three Uzbek nationals for the killing of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi.

“The murder of the late Chabad emissary Zvi Kogan in the Emirates is a cowardly and despicable antisemitic act of terror,” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on social media after Kogan’s body was discovered. “The State of Israel will not rest nor be silent until those responsible for this criminal act pay for their actions.”

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Officials in the United Arab Emirates said the 3 suspects in Zvi Kogan's death were from the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan.

The United Arab Emirates' interior ministry said on Monday that the suspects arrested in the alleged killing Israeli-Moldovan rabbi Zvi Kogan were from Uzbekistan, the state news agency WAM reported.