An Israeli tourist was killed and three others were injured in a car accident in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Sunday.
The fatality, Oshri Malsa, a 22-year-old resident of the Israeli port city of Ashdod, was the driver of a vehicle that collided head-on with another car because of a faulty traffic light at a junction, according to an initial investigation of the incident, Hebrew media reported.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry was assisting Malsa’s family with arrangements to transport the body to Israel for burial.
Of the three people injured, one woman was hospitalized in serious condition and two other men were released from the hospital after being treated for light injuries. All four Israelis were backpackers in the city.
The car crash is the latest in a string of incidents that have claimed the lives of Israeli nationals abroad.
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Last Tuesday, on the eve of Yom Kippur, two Israeli children were killed in a car crash in Georgia, when the family’s car plunged into a gorge.
On Monday, an Israeli tourist died from altitude sickness in Bolivia after cycling on what is popularly known as the “Road of Death.”
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