A 7-year-old boy was killed after being struck by a bus on Rehov Rabbi Akiva in Modi'in Illit, the ZAKA emergency service reports. Rescue crews are treating the scene.
A 7-year-old boy was fatally struck by a bus on Rehov Rabbi Akiva in Modi'in Illit on Thursday afternoon, according to the ZAKA emergency response organization. ZAKA personnel are at the scene, providing treatment and handling the incident. The boy's age was reported as 7, though earlier reports from minutes before had cited an unconfirmed age of 7 as well. This is the latest in a series of pedestrian-bus incidents in Israeli cities in recent weeks, including a fatal accident in Carmei Tzur in mid-June and a critical injury in Modi'in Illit earlier on Thursday. The circumstances of the crash remain under investigation.
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