Two Israeli soldiers were seriously injured early Wednesday when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew his car up near an Israeli armored vehicle in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses and Israeli Radio reported.

At around 7:00 a.m. local time (0500 GMT), a huge blast was heard southeast of the town of Deir El Ballah in the central Gaza Strip, residents said, adding that they saw ambulances evacuating casualties from the area. Israeli Radio reported that a Palestinian driving a booby-trapped car drove on the road toward the crossroad that leads to the Jewish settlements and crashed it with an armored vehicle that patrolled the area. Other Israeli sources said that at least two Palestinians in the car were killed and two of the three soldiers in the armored vehicle were seriously wounded. 

Source: Xinhua