The accident on Route 5
The accident on Route 5Rafi Avital/TPS

A woman was killed and several people were injured, some of them seriously, in a car accident on Thursday afternoon between a private vehicle and a bus on Route 5 near Elkana in Samaria.

The private car and the bus involved in the accident were set on fire. Fire forces were called to extinguish the fire and rescue the trapped people.

The road is blocked in both directions, police forces are at the scene.