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Two Israelis Killed in Palestinian Drive-by Shooting Attack
Two Israelis were killed and three wounded Sunday morning when a minibus carrying school and kindergarten teachers through the Jordan Valley came under a Palestinian shooting attack.
The shooting took place near the Adam junction, not far from the border crossing into Jordan, Israel Radio reported.
The bus driver and a woman passenger were killed when shots were reportedly fired from a passing vehicle with a Palestinian license plate.
Three other passengers were wounded in the crash which occurred in the wake of the shooting. The Israeli army has dispatched a helicopter to the scene of the attack to evacuate the wounded to nearby hospitals.
The shooting attack followed a missile strike by Israeli air force on Palestinian Fatah offices near the West Bank city of Ramallah Saturday evening to avenge the death of an army officer on Thursday. A woman officer was seriously injured in that shooting attack by Palestinian gunmen.
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