Three Israelis drowned early Saturday morning in flash floods resulting from Israel’s third torrential rainstorm of the season.
The three drowned were among five traveling in a car that skidded off the road when raging flood waters inundated Nahal Sorek, a dry river bed near Kfar Gavirol.
The five were returning to their homes in the Ashdod area after having spent the night out in Rehovot. Two passengers in the back seat managed to break a window, crawl out and summon help. But the three in the front seat were trapped and drowned.
The bodies of Nicole Barda, 26, and Haim Kazarov, 34, of Ashdod, and Aviva Etedji, 19, of Kiryat Malachi, were found by searchers the following morning, some miles downstream.
Earlier in December, two soldiers drowned when the vehicle in which they were traveling was overturned by the sudden onrush of torrential waters.
And four other people were killed in storm-connected accidents this past weekend when their vehicles skidded into utility polls or other vehicles on waterlogged roads.
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