Death toll climbs to 17 in bus-truck collision in Egypt

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Death toll climbs to 17 in bus-truck collision in Egypt FMTNews FMTWorld

Reckless driving, lax traffic rules and poor road conditions cause many vehicular crashes in Egypt.

CAIRO: Seventeen people were killed and 29 injured after a public bus and a heavy transport truck collided on a desert highway in southwestern Egypt, the health ministry said today. The accident occurred on Wednesday on the Assuit-Kharga highway, some 400km southwest of Cairo, in New Valley province that shares a long border with Libya, medical and security sources said.

Twenty-six ambulances were dispatched to the scene to ferry the injured to hospitals, a health ministry statement said.Reckless driving, lax traffic rules and poor road conditions cause many vehicular crashes in Egypt. Road accidents left 7,101 people dead in Egypt in 2021, a 15.2% increase compared with 2020, statistics agency Capmas said in a report last year.

 

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