The late Liron Avitan, 22, was killed last night (Sunday) when a Metropolitan bus overturned into a ditch on Highway 40 heading south - near Kiryat Gat.
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Liron is the son of the commander of the Southern Traffic Police, Lieutenant Colonel Yosef Avitan - who arrived at the scene of the accident and discovered that the deceased was his son.
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Rescue forces called to the scene of the accident determined the death of the late Liron, who was without signs of life and with multi-system damage.
Rescue forces evacuated 12 injured people, including a 16-year-old boy, a 29-year-old man, and a 43-year-old man who were moderately injured and 9 other injured people in light condition, to Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva.
Yoel Enki and Shlomo Zuckerman, ZAKA volunteers from the Lachish area, who arrived at the scene, said: "We saw a difficult scene with a large number of injured as a result of a bus overturning. Unfortunately, after a complex rescue by the fire brigade, the MDA teams that arrived at the scene were forced to confirm the death of a 22-year-old man who was trapped under the bus.""
ZAKA volunteers from the Lachish area treated the deceased with dignity and worked in the difficult arena to collect the findings.
