Bus Carrying Israeli Muslims From Prayer Crashes, Eight Dead
A collision involving a truck and a bus carrying Israeli Muslims returning from prayer at Yerushalayim’s al Aqsa mosque killed eight people on Tuesday, police and local officials said.
At least 24 people were injured in the crash at a junction in southern Israel near several Bedouin Arab towns, medical officials said. Most of the casualties were women, they said.
Israeli media reports cited witnesses as saying that a tractor being ferried by the truck came loose and toppled into the bus.
The mayor of the nearby town of Rahat, Talal al-Kariani, said that the bus passengers were mostly elderly, local Muslims who go to pray at the al Aqsa mosque in daily or weekly organized trips.
This article appeared in print on page 22 of edition of Hamodia.
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