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August 19, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/bus-driver-recounts-long-minutes-of-terror-attack-1.379444

Bus Driver Recounts Terror Attack

(Ha'aretz) Revital Levy-Stein - The driver of Egged Bus 392 saw the car up ahead signaling frantically. Benny Bilefsky, 67, slowed the bus, thinking there had been a traffic accident. Then he saw two Egyptian soldiers in camouflage uniforms at the border fence just 15 meters from the road, where an Egyptian army post stands on the other side. "I thought they were soldiers repairing the fence," Bilefsky recalls. "I slowed a bit, and then I caught a hail of bullets." "I pressed down on the gas pedal, decided not to stop, took my telephone, dialed 100 and called the police."

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