4-year-old boy killed by bus in Beitar Illit is a US citizen — report

The 4-year-old boy who was hit and killed by a bus in the ultra-Orthodox West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit is a US citizen, whose family came to Israel to spend Passover with Israeli relatives, according to the Haredi news website Kikar Hashabbat.

Media reports say the child had been standing with his family on the sidewalk, when he abruptly ran onto the road for unknown reasons and was run over before the eyes of his mother.

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