Key Highlights
- The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it declared the deaths of eight victims at the scene and took 28 others to hospitals, two in serious condition.
- The death of the ninth victim was declared a short time later.
- Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center said it was treating six people, including a four-year-old boy who was admitted in moderate condition, while others were evacuated to the Terem Emergency Medical Center in Beit Shemesh and the capital’s Hadassah University Hospitals in Mount Scopus and Ein Kerem.
- The military said it dispatched search and rescue forces and medics to the scene, along with a helicopter to assist with evacuating the injured.
- Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Newsletter email address Get it By signing up, you agree to the terms Footage showed the moment of the impact just before 2 p. m., after sirens rang out across much of the country.
