Eleven killed in bus crash on Egypt’s Red Sea coast

Eleven people were killed on Sunday when a bus overturned on a highway in a Red Sea resort town, the worst road crash in months, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

The accident, which took place in Hurghada, also injured at least eleven, an ambulance official told Ahram.

Hurghada is approximately 500 kilometres southeast of Cairo.

Hundreds die and thousands are injured every year in car crashes in Egypt, notorious for its poor road safety record and loosely enforced traffic regulations.

In its latest report in April, the country’s census authority said that over 14,000 road accidents occurred in Egypt in 2014, killing more than 6,200 people and injuring some 25,154 others.

Late in May, sixteen people, all but three of them policemen, were killed in a collision in Beni Suef, south of Cairo.

source:Ahram online