Six Palestinians were killed Tuesday afternoon in a collision involving three vehicles on Highway 60 south of the settlement of Ofra in the West Bank.
Among the dead is a man around 50, a man and a woman around 30, two teen boys and one teen girl. A 17-year-old teenage boy was seriously injured, while the driver of a bus, who is around 50, was moderately wounded.
The accident involved an Israeli bus and two Palestinian vehicles, one of them a shuttle taxi and the other a private car. Initial investigation into the accident indicated the two smaller vehicles collided with the bus.