Israeli forces clamped a total curfew on four Arab villages in the Samosia district of the West Bank Tuesday night in the aftermath of a terrorist ambush attack on a school bus carrying children from Kodumim to Elon Moreh, both Gush Emunim settlements.
There were no casualties among the nine children and other passengers aboard the bus but the driver and on armed civilian escort sustained slight injuries. The driver was credited with saving the children when he ordered them to lie on the floor as machinegun bullets peppered the bus shattering windows, Several bullets lodged in an orange crate behind which passengers crouched. The driver raced the bus away from the scene at top speed while the armed guard returned the fire.
(In Washington, a State Department spokesman, asked to comment on the ambush, said: “My comment is the some as it has been on all of the other deplorable occasions. It is an act of violence which we think is deplorable and which we wish fervently would not happen. I don’t think that’s the way to solve the problems involved in that area in the world.”)
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