6 dead, including 3 minors, in head-on collision in West Bank

Six people are dead, including three minors, and a teenager is critically hurt in a car crash in the West Bank north of Ramallah, the Magen David Adom rescue service says.

Initial reports from the scene only said eight people were hurt, but MDA now says a military doctor and the service’s paramedics were forced to pronounce six of them dead at the scene.

The accident involved a head-on collision between an empty Israeli bus and a Palestinian minibus taxi on Route 60 south of Ofra.

The wounded youth, 17, is taken to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus sedated and attached to a respirator. Another man, reportedly the driver of the bus, is moderately hurt and also hospitalized at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus.

One MDA paramedic, Betzalel Ben Hamu, describes arriving at the scene and seeing “a commercial taxi crushed, alongside a private vehicle and a bus, with the wounded and dead lying around and inside the taxi.”