22 killed in Egypt bus crash

Updated - May 19, 2016 07:50 am IST

Published - March 11, 2014 02:30 pm IST - Cairo

22 people were killed and many injured when a bus collided with a parked truck near the Egyptian city of Suez early on Tuesday, state television reported.

The driver of the bus said that he was blinded by the headlights of an oncoming vehicle on the wrong side of the road, state-run newspaper Al-Ahram reported online.

In trying to avoid the car, the bus driver crashed into the truck parked on the carriageway, Al-Ahram reported.

The bus was reportedly on its way from the tourist resort area of South Sinai to the Nile Delta city of al-Mansoura.

Egypt suffers more than 12,000 deaths in road accidents annually, according to the World Health Organisation.

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