One man was killed and two were injured early Thursday morning when a passenger vehicle erupted in flames on Histadrut Street in Haifa. Police bomb snappers suspect that the incident was criminally motivated.

Preliminary police investigation identified an explosive device by the car that caused the vehicle containing three passengers to go up in flames. Two of the passengers suffered light to moderate injuries. The identity of the driver who was killed in the explosion is still unknown. The area of the incident is closed to traffic.