Police search for hit-and-run suspects, 1 dead

26-year-old dies in Lod car accident; police find driver ran him over 2nd time as he fled, search for driver, 2 passengers.

police car 311 (photo credit: Ariel Jerozolimski)
police car 311
(photo credit: Ariel Jerozolimski)
Police are searching for a driver and two passengers that were involved in a hit-and-run that killed a youth in the city of Lod, Army Radio reported Friday.
The 26-year-old victim of the incident was identified as Ilan Sirik.
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Police say the suspect was driving a Mazda, and were calling upon him to turn himself in.
Initial investigations revealed that the driver stopped after hitting Sirik on Lod's Einstein street, and then fled the scene, at which point he ran over the youth a second time.
In a separate incident Friday, MK Ruhama Avraham was injured in a car accident at the entrance to Beersheba, Army Radio reported. She was treated on the scene by Magen David Adom paramedics.