Four people were killed and three were injured on Sunday in a car accident in the Arava desert, some 45 kilometers north of Eilat, near Kibbutz Ketura.

Among the dead were three members of the same family - a man and a woman in their 40s, and a young woman. All three were riding in the same vehicle. The fourth fatality was a woman riding in the second car who was critically injured and died later from her wounds.

A man, 45, was lightly hurt in the accident, and Magen David Adom rescue teams said that two children, aged 11 and 12, were also among the injured.