Two Israelis died and seven others were injured at the early hours of Friday morning as an Israeli bus plunged 70 meters down a ravine in stormy weather in the northern West Bank province of Nablus Israeli news outlets reported.
The bus was traveling on Route 60 near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Halevona when it went off the road at about 1 a.m. according to the Magen David Adom (MDA) rescue service.
Two men aged 23 and 37 died. Four were seriously wounded two were in a moderate condition and one person was lightly hurt Magen David Adom said.
The 37-year-old man was named in the Hebrew-language media as bus driver Avishai Kroani a resident of the illegal Ariel outpost.
Israeli army helicopters had to be used to lift the wounded out of the ravine to waiting ambulances on the road above due to the difficulty in climbing down to reach the crash site.
