Ramaswamy has stoked grassroots chatter as a potential alternative to former President Donald Trump, whom he fervently supports.
"It's an apocalyptic scene. I am speechless," Mayor Luigi Brugnaro posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.
"We received with a heavy heart the news that a resident of our city was killed in a tragic accident," Ashkelon mayor said in a statement.
The accident occurred due to a collision between a car and a tour vehicle in the city's Alanya district.
Early on Saturday morning, a catastrophic bus crash resulted in the deaths of at least 25. Others are injured.
An additional eight people were injured in a three-way crash just hours earlier.
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There were six traffic accidents all over the country resulting in varying levels of injury on Thursday night and early Friday morning.
Two people died and fourteen people were injured in two car crashes that occurred in the span of one hour on Saturday evening.
Thirteen injured people with varying degrees of injury, three of which were in moderate condition, were evacuated to medical centers in Haifa.