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Eight school children dead in West Bank road accident
Feb 16, 2012, 8:50 GMT
Jerusalem - Eight Palestinian children died Thursday when an Israeli truck hit a Palestinian school bus on a West Bank road, poice said.
Some 20 others were injured, Palestinian police spokesman Izzat Said told dpa.
The truck and school bus collided frontally at a chaotic junction between Jerusalem and Ramallah, near a Jewish settlement.
The bus overturned and caught fire.
Israeli Police Spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld confirmed the accident. He said a large Israeli police contingent had arrived at the scene and was investigating.
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