5:40PM IL: According to reports from the scene, at least six people were R”L killed and others are injured in a vehicular accident on Route 38 near Ramat Bet Shemesh. Operating on the scene is MDA Jerusalem and Bet Shemesh as well as Hatzolah volunteers.
It appears the crash was head-on, involving Jewish families according to reliable but yet unconfirmed reports on the scene. In addition to the fatalities, there appears to be two injured, in moderate and light condition.
6:05 PM IL: Anyone seeking to make their way to Bet Shemesh for shabbos is strongly advised to immediately seek an alternate route. Hwy 38 is closed due to the major accident.
6:09 PM IL: Police Chief Dudi Cohen is responding to the MVA near Ramat Bet Shemesh. All agencies operating on the scene report six dead in addition to injured.
The two cars collided head-on, one heading to Yerushalayim and the other in the opposite direction.
Tens of MDA personnel from Jerusalem and Bet Shemesh are operating on the scene along with Hatzolah members.
6:23PM IL: In a bizarre event, it appears that tens of family members of the dead have arrived on the scene and there is a confrontation with police, who are being attacked. Dozens of police are brining the situation under control. The reports state the family members are trying to remove the bodies from the scene. No explanation is given at this time.
Additional information to follow as it becomes available.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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5 Responses
Nothing is bizarre in the land of the holy ones.
Why a confrontation? Fear of autopsies, stealing of body for parts, etc., hope that they are allowing the police to evacuate the injured to nearby hospitals.
R”l. Does anyone have an update as to who the victims are?
It’s a horrible accident, B”H such things rarely happen. May this never happen again. And, as #1 says, road 38 is very dangerous unfortunately.
Are they from Toldos Aharon of RBS? I just can’t help but remember the incident there a few years ago when they stole a woman’s body from Abu Kabir forensic institute.
we are all going to have you in mind in our prayers we are all with you baruch dayan emes.
It seems that the one car had some youths who were under the influence of alcohol. One soldier and his friends.
The other car were Russians returning from a bris.
It seems that the drunk car veered into the other lane causing a head-on collision.