A 40-year-old man was killed today (Sunday) in a car explosion on Sahron Street in Jaffa. MDA medics and paramedics who were called to the scene found him near the car unconscious, without a pulse and not breathing, with multiple organ damage, and were forced to declare him dead at the scene. A 6-year-old boy who was found in the car was evacuated in moderate to stable condition.
Another injured person was evacuated independently to Wolfson Hospital. Large police forces arrived at the scene and began initial investigation operations, along with searches to locate suspects.
MDA paramedic Yaarit Oren and MDA medics Anwar Sharqawi and Shimon Dahan said: “We received several reports of a car explosion. We arrived at the scene with large forces and saw the vehicle emitting smoke, on fire and shrapnel all around. A man about 40 years old was lying next to the vehicle, unconscious, without a pulse and not breathing, with multiple system injuries. We performed medical examinations, his injury was severe and we were forced to declare him dead on the spot.”