It was reported that 3 people, 2 of them children, died in the accident in which an Israeli city bus lost control and plunged into the stop.
A city bus lost control on Shamgar Street, north of central Jerusalem, according to a statement from the Israeli emergency organization, the Red Star of David.
As a result of the bus hitting the stop, two children, one aged 3 and the other 7 years old, and a woman died.
In the statement, it was stated that 6 people, one of whom was seriously injured in the accident, were taken to the hospital, and the teams also tried to save other people who were under the bus.
Israeli police announced that they had launched an investigation into the incident, which they described as a “traffic accident”.
In a written statement made after the accident, the Municipal Buses Committee drew attention to the lack of 5 thousand drivers in their staff. The statement warned that the drivers “driving for too long, were at the level of crashing and had turned into a time bomb due to the worsening situation”.
Yesterday, a city bus went off the road and entered a building in Jerusalem, and a 70-year-old passenger died in the accident. (AA)