Road Accident Leaves 14 Dead in Egypt

Arab World

May 4th, 4:50am

Asharq A-Awsat

People gather at the site where a passenger train derailedin Banha, Qalyubia province, Egypt, Sunday, April 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Fadel Dawood)

Fourteen people were killed and 25 injured after a public transport bus collided with a heavy transport truck on a desert highway in southwestern Egypt on Wednesday, medical and security sources said. The accident occurred on Assuit-Kharga highway, around 400 km (250 miles) southwest of Cairo, in New Valley province, the sources said. Seventeen ambulances were dispatched to the scene to ferry the injured to hospitals, state news agency MENA quoted New Valley governor Mohamed el-Zamlout as saying. It was not immediately clear how the accident occurred.

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