9 Israelis injured in jeep accident in Nepal
Vehicle said to have overturned several times before falling into gorge in Annapura region; one woman seriously hurt
Nine Israeli tourists were injured in a jeep accident in Nepal on Sunday, one of them seriously.
The Foreign Ministry confirmed the backpackers were involved in an accident while driving a jeep in the Annapurna Mountain Range in central Nepal.
Eight of them were lightly injured while the ninth, a woman, suffered a head injury, which according to Hebrew media reports was very serious.
The Ynet news site reported that the all-terrain vehicle overturned several times and fell into a gorge.
The Israeli embassy in Nepal was handling the incident along with MAGNUS international search and rescue, insurance companies, and the local Chabad house.
Two weeks ago the body of a 22-year-old Israeli woman traveler who disappeared in Kyrgyzstan was found, after six days of searching. The Israeli Clal Insurance rescue team located Hila Livne’s body in a gorge in the area where she had been hiking. According to reports in Kyrgyzstan, Livne had fallen from a cliff in the Sari-Chalak nature reserve and was killed.