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The Avivim school bus bombing was a terrorist attack on an Israeli school bus on 22 May 1970, in which 12 civilians were killed, nine of them children, and 25 were wounded, one of whom died of a wound sustained in the attack 44 years later. The attack took place on the road to Moshav Avivim, near Israel's border with
The Sha'ar HaNegev school bus attack was a missile attack on 7 April 2011, in which Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip fired a Kornet laser-guided anti-tank missile over the border at an Israeli school bus, killing a schoolboy.
The attack came to light after videos were posted on Twitter depicting the remains of the bus and the children. [3] Images of the victims were aired on the Al Masirah TV network, highlighting dramatic images of blood and debris-covered children lying on hospital stretchers. [11]
The high frequency of bus attacks are attributed to the ease of the attackers' access to a large group of unprotected people within an enclosed space. [1] As such, it is one of the most common methods of public transportation being targeted or used as weapons, with a high potential for mass-casualties . [ 2 ]
TOKYO (Reuters) -A man holding what appeared to be a knife attacked a bus used by a Japanese school in Suzhou, China, on Monday, seriously wounding a Chinese woman and injuring a Japanese woman ...
A 14-year-old schoolboy was attacked by machete-wielding youths “almost instantaneously” after they spotted him on a London bus, a court has heard. Kelyan Bokassa was stabbed around 27 times ...
Madhu school bus bombing. An accidental explosion of a claymore mine planted by the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), a Sri Lankan militant organization, targeting the armed forces, resulted in the deaths of 17 civilians, including 11 children on a school bus in the Mannar District. Sri Lanka was engaged in a war against LTTE, known for ...
Kelyan was attacked on a London bus on the way home from school in Woolwich, south-east London, on 7 January. Police were called at about 14:30 GMT to reports of a stabbing on the Route 472 bus on ...