Girl, 9, killed by hit-and-run truck in Jerusalem

Paramedics declare victim dead at the scene in the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood, police hunting for driver

By Stuart Winer

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30 January 2017, 5:27 pm

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Stuart Winer is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.

A main street in Jabel Mukaber, one of the Arab villages abutting Armon Hanatziv (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

A 9-year-old girl was hit by a truck and killed Monday in East Jerusalem, the Magen David Adom emergency service said.

The driver did not stop, Israel Radio reported, and police are trying to locate him.

Paramedics declared the victim dead at the scene in the Arab neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber.

Last week, four people were killed in a collision between a car and a minibus in the north of the country. In that incident, the speeding car strayed into the opposing lane and crashed head-on into the oncoming minibus. All three occupants of the car were killed, as well as a woman in the minibus. Four others were moderate to seriously injured.

Traffic fatalities in 2016 rose 6% compared to 2015, the Central Bureau of Statistics said earlier this week.

Last year 378 people were killed on the roads in Israel compared to 356 the year before. Another 1,909 people were seriously injured, compared to 1,896 in 2015.

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