The Jerusalem Post calls it the worst road accident in the nation’s history: 25 Russian travel agents were killed and 33 injured, 23 of them seriously injured, the when the bus carrying the newly arrived group overturned and fell down a ravine near Eijat, close to the Egyptian border and Red Sea. Police say the bus, whose driver had 22 previous convictions, was passing another bus in a no-passing zone on a blind curve. Moscow Times report
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 17 December 2008 at 7:27 |
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News story, GenevaLunch, 17 December 2008.
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Tags: bus, Israel, ravine, road accident, Russians
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