CAIRO, Aug 10 (NNN-MENA) – At least nine people were killed and seven others wounded, as a truck collided with a passenger minibus yesterday, on a highway in Egypt’s Nile Delta province of Qalioubiya, north of Cairo.
The health ministry office in Qalioubiya revealed the names of five victims, whose ages varied between 24 and 62, while the other four were unidentified.
Those wounded were taken to the nearby Benha University Hospital, where Qalioubiya Governor, Abdel-Hamid al-Haggan, checked on them after inspecting the accident’s scene.
In early Aug, eight people died when a minibus crashed into a canal in Giza province in south of Cairo.– NNN-MENA
Egypt suffers a high rate of traffic accidents that kill thousands of people every year mostly due to human errors including high speed and negligence of traffic rules.
