Shlomi Lahiani, former mayor of Bat Yam, was slightly injured this afternoon (Sunday) in an explosion in his vehicle near the La Guardia Interchange on the Ayalon South Highway. As a result of the explosion, another vehicle was damaged and a person was slightly injured.
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The police have launched an investigation, with the main suspicion being that the explosion was caused by a bomb planted in the vehicle.
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Following the incident, the Ayalon South Highway was closed to traffic starting at La Guardia.
MDA paramedics Neria Ben Moshe and Shai Bachar, who arrived at the scene of the incident: "We saw two vehicles in the middle of the road and next to them two injured people with head injuries, both of whom suffered injuries to their limbs. We provided them with initial medical treatment and evacuated them to the hospital while they were fully conscious.".
Rescue medic Yaakov Refaeli: "When I arrived at the scene of the incident, I found two men, about 35 years old, suffering from blows to the head next to a vehicle that had caught fire, apparently due to an explosion. Together with MDA medics and paramedics, we provided them with initial medical treatment, including immobilization and dressings, and they were evacuated in moderate to mild condition to continue receiving medical treatment in the trauma room at Wolfson Hospital in Holon.""
In the past two years, four bombs were targeted at Lahian, three of which were attached to his car - the last in January of last year, and another bomb was attached to a restaurant owned by his family in Bat Yam.
A vehicle exploded near the La Guardia Interchange on Highway 20 (Aylon South), a person was moderately injured. The background to the incident is being examined | Documentation@hadasgrinberg @AnnaPines_
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Lahiani, 59, served as mayor of Bat Yam between 2003 and 2014. In December 2015, he began serving an eight-year prison sentence for being convicted of three counts of breach of trust.
Five months later, he was released from prison after serving two-thirds of his sentence. In February of last year, after the seven years of disgrace imposed on him for his criminal conviction had passed, he ran again in the mayoral election - but lost to Zvika Brut.
