this may have been a robbery gone bad.
Media reporting ambulances assembling on side street.
not good.
Any news on the occupants? No children I hope.
Thanks so much for the update.
IDF Radio: 27 people on bus. 2 hostage-takers. Hostage takers demanded that the bus driver who escaped be returned to the bus. Bullets that were heard were suspected as being from a rifle used for hunting by those in area.
Police are now interviewing driver to establish exactly how many are in the bus. lay of the land so to speak.
Reporters are saying that police using cameras believe nobody has been shot.
One report is they are armed with two pistols and a sawed off or short barrel shotgun.
Police are removing reporters from a gas station close to the scene.