Dozens of victims after a truck crashed into a bus stop near Tel Aviv

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli emergency services are treating dozens of people injured after a truck crashed into a bus dropping off passengers at a bus stop near the Glilot military base north of Tel Aviv on Sunday morning.

An Israeli police spokesman said preliminary investigations showed the truck collided with passengers as well as a bus.

Civilians at the scene “shot at the truck driver and neutralized him,” Israeli police said.

The circumstances surrounding the crash remain under investigation, and police have not indicated whether they are treating the incident as a suspected terrorist attack or a traffic accident.

Ronit Glazer of Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical service, described the chaotic scene in a video posted by X as rescuers received a report of a “massive casualty event” near the Glilot intersection.

She said the MDA dispatched “medical aid units, ambulances, motorcycles, first responders, paramedics and EMTs” to the scene, from where personnel evacuated “more than 20 casualties,” including six seriously injured.

United Hatzalah, a volunteer emergency service, said the incident involved a “large number of pedestrians” and that people remained trapped under the truck 30 minutes after the incident.

Police and emergency services continue to work at the scene.

This is a developing story, stay tuned. Yarden Segev reported from Tel Aviv and Freddie Clayton reported from London.