Lorry driver rams into crowded Israeli bus cease injuring at the least 24 folks earlier than being ‘shot and neutralised’ by civilians

A truck driver rammed his vehicle into a crowd of people at a bus stop in central Israel on Sunday, injuring at least 24 people before he was ‘shot and neutralised’, police said.

At least 24 people were injured in the incident in Glilot, just north of Tel Aviv, which took place just after 10am local time (8am UK time), police said, without clarifying whether it was an attack.

The force however said civilians at the site of the incident ‘shot the truck driver and neutralised him’.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that many of the injured civilians were elderly people who had disembarked a bus ahead of a visit to an IDF base nearby. 

Preliminary police findings showed the driver also hit a bus that had stopped at the same location to drop off passengers, the police said in a statement. 

Earlier on Sunday the Magen David Adom emergency service said the incident occurred at Aharon Yariv Boulevard in Ramat HaSharon, north of the commercial hub Tel Aviv.

A truck driver rammed his vehicle (pictured) into a crowd of people at a bus stop in central Israel on Sunday, injuring at least 24 people 

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.

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