BBC News with David Austin

German officials now say they believe locally grown bean sprouts are the most likely source of the E.coli bug, which has killed 22 people and infected some 2,000 more in Germany and abroad. The sprouts were sold for use in salads. From Berlin, here's our correspondent Steve Evans.

The regional government of Lower Saxony in northern Germany, one of the areas badly affected by the outbreak, said that locally grown bean sprouts were now suspected. Ministers said that "all

indication

s speak to them being" the cause and people would be warned not to eat them. Operations at a farm in the region had been stopped, and there would be further tests. But the authorities said it was the most

convincing

possibility. The revelation might embarrass the German government because it

pointed the finger at

Spanish farms when the cause

turns out to be

right at home.

Syrian state television says 20 people were killed and more than 300 injured when Israeli soldiers opened fire on pro-Palestinian demonstrators trying to enter the occupied Golan Heights from the Syrian side. The demonstrators were marking the anniversary of the start of the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel seized the Golan. An Israeli government spokesman, Mark Regev, said his country

had no option but

to open fire.

"You can't have a situation where enemy nationals barge into your country,

tear up