A vehicle exploded Thursday morning on one of Israel\u2019s busiest highways, during one of the week\u2019s peak traffic hours, near the Holon Interchange on the Ayalon Highway. <\/p>\n
Magen David Adom paramedics pronounced the woman who had been inside the vehicle dead.<\/p>\n
Police said the incident was criminal in nature, and Ayalon District officers and Tel Aviv District bomb disposal experts opened an investigation into the blast. <\/p>\n
However, it remains unclear whether the explosion was an assassination or a \u201cwork accident,\u201d meaning whether the woman killed had brought the explosive device into the vehicle. According to initial details, the victim was not known to police.<\/p>\n
MDA said the report of the car explosion on Highway 20 was received at its Ayalon regional dispatch center at 9:20 a.m. Large police forces were called to the scene alongside rescue teams.<\/p>\n
MDA motorcycle unit emergency medics Neria Hajbi and Orel Toledano said: \u201cWe received a report of a car explosion, arrived quickly at the scene and saw the vehicle on fire, with a person lying nearby without a pulse or breathing and with burns on her body. We carried out medical checks. The injury was very severe, and we were forced to pronounce her dead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle exploded Thursday morning on one of Israel\u2019s busiest highways, during one of the week\u2019s peak traffic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-475900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}