Colombia: 3 Israelis escape bus-torching
Bus carrying three Israelis set ablaze by guerillas on Medellin-Santa Marta road; passengers unharmed, their belongings stolen
Colombian guerillas torched a bus that was making its way from Medellin to Santa Marta. Three Israelis who were aboard the bus escaped unharmed, but their belongings were stolen.
"My daughter contacted me by phone at around 2:30 pm," the mother of a 23-year-old Bat Hefer resident told Ynet, "she said all those aboard the bus fled the scene after it was pulled over and set on fire by guerillas.
The mother said the Israeli embassy in Bogota and the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem were looking into the bus passengers' situation.
"My daughter and a friend who was with her on the bus saved for this trip for a long time following their release from the army," she said, adding that she had not spoken to her daughter since the afternoon phone conversation.
The incident was not the first in which guerillas block roads in the area and pull vehicles over, but they usually do not look to harm passengers.
