A three-year-old child is killed and six people are wounded, four of them seriously, in a traffic accident on Route 555 near the West Bank settlement of Itamar, medics say.
Two vehicles collided, with one of them catching fire, medics say. The immediate cause of the crash was not clear.
Magen David Adom medics say four of the wounded are in serious condition, including two men in their 20s, a man in his 50s and a 14-year-old boy.
They were evacuated to hospital with the help of an IDF helicopter.
A woman in her 30s is moderately wounded and a 10-year-old girl is lightly hurt, they are taken by ambulance to hospital.
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