20 killed, 3 injured in Egypt bus-truck accident

Cairo - The bus was charred within minutes.

By WAM/Reuters

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Published: Wed 14 Apr 2021, 6:52 PM

Twenty people were killed and three injured in an accident involving a bus and a truck on a desert highway in Upper Egypt late on Tuesday, the health ministry said on Wednesday.

The bus from Cairo collided with a truck loaded with cement, which was stopping due to a malfunction, in the province of Assiut, about 370km south of the capital, the provincial governor's office said in a statement.


The bus was burned out within minutes, and the bodies and the injured were removed from it with difficulty, it added.

Thirty-six ambulances rushed to the scene, the health ministry said.



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