A number of women seriously injured in the Eilat area bus accident were transferred to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva. An air force Hercules cargo plane transported others to Assaf HaRofeh Hospital and Sheba Medical Center as Eilat’s Yosef-Tal Hospital is not equipped to handle so many seriously injured victims.

The Chabad shaliach in St. Petersburg a short time ago announced that at present, he is unaware of any Jews who were involved in the accident.

In Yosef-Tal Hospital, one of the seriously injured woman died of her massive injuries.

The MDA emergency hotline number, 1-700-500-430, can provide information for Russian speakers.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)