A bus transporting 18 Arab laborers to Israel was attacked today by unidentified gunmen at the outskirt of the village of Mazraat A-Sharkiya, near the West Bank town of Ramallah. Six passengers were slightly wounded and were rushed to a nearby hospital. The attack took place shortly before 6:00 a.m. local time as the bus rounded a curve in the road. According to the driver, Zuhdi A-Shalabi, a group of persons appeared on the road and began firing at the front of the vehicle.
Two bullets went through the front windshield, barely missing the driver and the passengers sitting next to him. Security forces began an intensive investigation and instituted a news blackout on all information. “Since 1967, I have been going on the same route daily,” A-Shalabi said, “and never has a thing such as that happened before.”
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