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Four Palestinians killed as car slams into tourist bus
May 27, 2011, 8:59 GMT
Tel Aviv - A car speeding along a road near the Dead Sea in the West Bank slammed into a bus full of German tourists Friday morning, police and first aid officials said.
The four Palestinian occupants of the car were killed on impact. There were no fatalities among the tourists.
Initial finds showed that the car was traveling at 110 kilometres per hour along a road with an 80-kph speed limit, and one of its occupants were wearing seat belts.
A police officer summoned to the scene was also quoted as saying that saying that the remnants of a Vodka bottle were found in the car.
A medic who was summoned to the scene said the tourists alighted form the bus shaken, but did not need evacuation to hospital.
The four fatalities were reported to be Palestinians from towns in the northern and southern parts of the West Bank.
Also Friday, a van carrying workers collided with a slow-moving tractor in the Golan Heights, killing two people and injuring eight others, one of them critically.
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