Israel’s emergency services are treating dozens of casualties after a truck rammed into a bus as it was dropping of passengers at a bus stop near Glilot military base north of Tel Aviv on Sunday morning.
A spokesperson for Israel’s police force said a preliminary investigation indicated that the truck collided with passengers as well as the bus that had stopped.
Civilians at the scene “shot at the truck driver” and killed the person, Israeli police said.
The circumstances of crash remain under investigation, and the police have not indicated whether they are treating the incident as a suspected terror attack or a traffic accident.
Ronit Glazer, of Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical services, described a chaotic scene in a video posted X, as responders received a call of a “mass casualty event” near Glilot Junction.
She said MDA sent “care units, ambulances, motorcycles, first responders, paramedics and EMTs” to the scene, where staff evacuated “20-something casualties,” including six severely injured.
MDA remains on the scene.
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