They flew to Israel and died in a bus crash

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By Stan Goodenough
December 16, 2008

In a terrible tragedy Tuesday, at least 24 Russian tourists were killed and 28 others injured, many seriously, when their tour bus went off the road not far from the Red Sea resort town of Eilat, and plunged down an 80 m-deep ravine.

The accident - which eye witnesses said was caused by reckless driving - occurred shortly after the visitors plane from St Petersburg had landed at Ovda Airport in the Negev.

Israeli commentators expressed their horror and sadness as shocking scenes of the battered bus lying on its side in the body-littered ravine were beamed across Israeli television news networks.

A fleet of ambulances and at least three helicopters took the tens of injured to hospitals in the south, and Israeli doctors and nurses vacationing in Eilat were called in to care for them.

Israel's Ministry of Tourism offered its full assistance, and the Jewish community in St Petersburg opened up a crisis center.

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