Thursday, July 14, 2005

Netanya bombing death toll rises to 5

from Jerusalem Post , Jul. 14, 2005 1:16 By DANIELLA CHESLOW AND JPOST STAFF

A soldier who was critically wounded in Tuesday evening's suicide bomb attack in Netanya died of his wounds, ZAKA officials reported.

Corporal Maor Jan, 21, of Deganya, who was hospitalized at Haifa's Rambam Hospital, passed away Thursday morning, raising the death toll in the attack to five.

Jan will be laid to rest at the military cemetery in Netanya at 4:30 p.m. Thursday.
Eighteen more victims of the deadly bombing were still hospitalized Thursday, Army Radio reported, with two of them - a female and a male soldier -still in serious condition.

Best friends Rachel Ben-Abu and Nofar Horowitz, both 16, were laid to rest in a joint funeral Wednesday afternoon in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Cemetery.

...The other victims of the bombings were Yulia Voloshin, 31, of Netanya and Anya Lifschitz, 50.Lifschitz, died of her wounds Wednesday morning in Netanya's Laniado Hospital.
She succumbed to her wounds at about 10 a.m. Her 26-year-old daughter Marguerita and three-year-old granddaughter Liel were struggling with burns and other wounds Wednesday night.

...Judy Siegel and Shani Rosenfelder contributed to this report.

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