23 killed, 7 injured in road accident in Egypt
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Updated: 2019-12-29 06:48
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CAIRO -- A total of 23 people were killed and seven others were injured after a bus overturned on Saturday in Egypt's Port Said, northwest of the capital Cairo.
The bus, carrying factory laborers, crashed into a truck on Port Said-Damietta highway before it overturned, the state-run MENA news agency said.
Ambulances rushed to the scene to move the injured to nearby hospitals.
Egypt suffers a high rate of traffic accidents that kill thousands of people every year, mostly due to negligence of traffic rules.
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