Sunday, May 15, 2011

One dead, 15 injured after being hit by a bus in Tel Aviv

Jerusalem .- A person has died and fifteen others were injured when several vehicles hit by a bus in Tel Aviv in an incident police are investigating to determine if it is a terrorist attack. "The truck driver, originally from (the Israeli Arab town of) Kafr Qasem was arrested and is being investigated.

We are not yet clear which is the background. We are looking at all possibilities, including that in the case of an attack terrorist, "said Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld. The spokesman confirmed that the victims were this morning when the truck traveling on the street Barlev, south of Tel Aviv, and "ran over a series of vehicles, including a public bus, motorcycle, and also several pedestrians .

The driver, in his twenties, he tried to flee the scene, local media reported. The young driver said he lost control of the truck and has been an accident. Israeli security forces found on Sunday in a state of alert for the conclusion by the Palestinians in the Nakba (Catastrophe), which commemorates the expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians with the creation in 1948 of the State of Israel.

Expected multiple acts of protest demonstrations and Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories and in neighboring countries like Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan. In recent days there have been protests and violent incidents in East Jerusalem, where a 16-year old Palestinian boy was killed Friday by a shot from a private security guard.

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