At least 16 killed in car crash in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula

CAIRO — A postulation mishap Saturday involving a microbus and a larger autobus near astatine slightest 16 radical dormant and 18 others injured successful Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, wellness officials said.

The clang took spot erstwhile a microbus collided with a nationalist proscription autobus connected a roadworthy liking the metropolis of Tor successful confederate Sinai to the metropolis of Suez, the Health Ministry said successful a statement.

The collision happened 10 kilometers (about 6 miles) from Tor, constabulary said.

The Health Ministry said it deployed astatine slightest 13 ambulances to the country and that the injured were taken to hospitals successful confederate Sinai.

Deadly postulation accidents assertion thousands of lives each twelvemonth successful Egypt, which has a mediocre proscription information record. The crashes and collisions are mostly caused by speeding, atrocious roads oregon mediocre enforcement of postulation laws.

In October, a head-on conveyance collision killed astatine slightest 19 radical conscionable extracurricular Cairo. Another 12 radical were killed and 30 others injured successful September erstwhile a autobus overturned connected a road linking Cairo with the metropolis of Suez.

Egypt’s authoritative statistic bureau says determination were astir 10,000 roadworthy accidents successful 2019, the astir caller twelvemonth for which statistic are available, leaving implicit 3,480 dead. In 2018, determination were 8,480 car accidents, causing implicit 3,080 deaths.