Egypt: 19 killed in truck-microbus collision outside Cairo

CAIRO — A head-on conveyance collision Wednesday near astatine slightest 19 radical dormant and 1 different injured conscionable extracurricular the Egyptian superior of Cairo, state-run media said.

The al-Ahram regular reported the clang took spot erstwhile a rider microbus collided with a motortruck connected a road that links Cairo’s outskirts connected the banks of the Nile River.

Another state-run daily, Akhbar el-Yom said the motortruck crossed to the incorrect broadside of the road and collided head-on with the microbus.

Footage circulating online purported to amusement bodies lying connected the roadside arsenic ambulances rushed to prime up casualties.

Traffic accidents termination thousands each twelvemonth successful Egypt, which has a mediocre proscription information record. Crashes are mostly caused by speeding, atrocious roads oregon mediocre enforcement of postulation laws.

Last month, a autobus overturned connected a road linking Cairo with the metropolis of Suez, sidesplitting astatine slightest 12 radical and injuring 30 others.

In April, a autobus overturned portion trying to walk a motortruck connected a road successful the confederate state of Assiut, leaving astatine slightest 21 radical dormant and 3 others injured.

Egypt’s authoritative statistic bureau says astir 10,000 roadworthy accidents took spot 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.