Seven persons were killed and 14 injured Saturday when a minibus and an Egged bus collided head on after trying to avoid a camel that had wandered onto the Arava road in the Negev. The dead were all in the minibus, the driver and six tourists from Holland and Denmark. In another accident Saturday, one tourist was killed and 22 injured when a truck smashed into the back of a tourist bus on the Tel Aviv-Haifa rood.
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