Yoel Dovid Lando z”l a 10-year-old boy, was R”L killed after he was tragically hit by a cement-truck in Jerusalem today. The incident happened at the corner of Sha’arei Yisrael street and Malchei Yisrael street.
Emergency services were called for reports of a pedestrian struck near the Schneller apartment complex in Geulah. Responding EMT’s found a young boy unconscious and trapped beneath a cement mixer.
Emergency personnel were able to extricate the boy from beneath the industrial vehicle, but by that time it was sadly too late.
A preliminary investigation shows that the 9-year-old boy who was killed was on his way home from school together with his older sister when he crossed the road and was hit by a concrete mixer that he did not notice. The sister was not hurt.
The Lando’s are Chabad shluchim that resettled in Yerushalayim after leaving Ukraine.
הַמָּקוֹם יְנַחֵם אֶתְכֶם בְּתוֹךְ שְׁאָר אֲבֵלֵי צִיּוֹן וִירוּשָׁלַיִם
May Klal Yisrael see no more pain.
