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One dead, dozens injured after truck hits Israel bus stop | |
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One dead and dozens hurt as truck hits bus stop in Israel | |
A man has died and 33 more have been injured after a truck hit a bus stop near an Israeli military base north of Tel Aviv, in what authorities are investigating as a suspected terror attack. | |
"A truck hit dozens of people who had disembarked at a bus stop. Eight of the wounded were trapped under the truck and others were lying and walking near it,” a medic for Israel's Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service said. | |
Many of the injured were reportedly pensioners on a day trip to a nearby museum. | |
The driver of the truck, named as Rami Natur, an Arab Israeli from the town of Qalansawe in central Israel, was shot dead by a civilian at the scene. | |
The emergency services treated dozens of casualties | |
Emergency services were called to the Glilot Junction around 10:00 local time (08:00 GMT) on Sunday following reports of a truck ramming. | |
Yechiel Ben Moshe told the Ynet website: "We were a group of retirees going to Glilot to visit a museum and listen to a lecture." | |
"The bus parked, and people got off. A truck came from behind and I heard a huge noise from the truck. | |
"It drove toward us to run us over." | |
"Around me, everyone was injured and bleeding, and others were in shock. It looked like an accident at first, but then shots were fired at the terrorist." | |
Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is responsible for the police, called for the family of the suspected attacker to be deported from Israel. | |
Israel is already fighting its enemies on multiple fronts in Gaza and Lebanon. | |
But this attack raises a different question: how to keep its people safe from attackers already inside Israel, who use vehicles as weapons. |