TEL AVIV—Nearly three dozen people were injured when a freight truck plowed into a crowd at a bus stop in central Israel near Mosad office, in what police said they were investigating as a terrorist attack.
The truck rammed into the crowd as people were getting off a bus, police said.
At least five of the 35 injured were succumbed to injuries and six were in moderate condition, medical officials said.
Some of the injured were trapped under the bus when Israeli paramedics arrived.
The incident took place outside the IDF’s Glilot Base in central Israel. The armed civilians have shot down the truck driver and neutralized.
According to the police’s initial probe, a bus had stopped at the station outside the base to drop off passengers.
At the same time, a truck rammed into the stop and the people there.
The Magen David Adom emergency service said the incident occurred at Aharon Yariv Boulevard in Ramat HaSharon, north of the commercial hub Tel Aviv.
Of those injured, at least 16 people had been transported to nearby hospitals, MDA said in a statement.
Officers and ambulances rushed to the scene, where Israeli television channels showed police cordoning off the area as medics helped the injured and a helicopter hovered above.
The incident comes as Israel holds ceremonies to mark the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7 last year that sparked the ongoing wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
