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Four killed in West Bank traffic accident near Mitzpeh Yeriho
By Mijal Grinberg and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service
Four people were killed and four others injured Sunday in a West Bank traffic accident near the settlement of Mitpeh Yeriho.
One of the injured, a 13-year-old boy, was listed in moderate to serious condition. The other three were lightly hurt.
The accident occurred when an industrial vehicle and bus collided between Mitzpeh Yeriho and Mishor Adumim.
The cause of the collision, which brought Sunday's death toll in traffic accidents to six, is currently under investigation.
Earlier Sunday, an 8-year-old girl was killed when she was hit by a school bus on an unpaved road in a Bedouin village in the Negev.
According to local police officials, the girl stepped off her school bus and began crossing the street, when she was hit by a passing school bus. The girl was critically wounded, and succumbed to her wounds shortly thereafter, despite the efforts of a Magen David Adom emergency medical team that was called to the scene.
In a separate accident, a 60-year-old woman was killed and two others moderately injured in a two-car accident near Beit Shemesh.
The wounded were evacuated by helicopter to Hadassah University Hospital in Ein Karem, Jerusalem. An initial police inquiry found that the one of the vehicles struck an oncoming car while illegally passing. The woman who was killed was riding in the passing cars, while the drivers were both wounded.
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