At least two tourists were killed and five others seriously injured on Thursday after a minibus collided with a truck in southern Egypt, authorities said.
In a statement, Egyptian authorities said one of the victims was a Chinese national and the other an Italian. The two victims, aged 27 and 40, were killed on Thursday morning when the minibus they were traveling in collided with a truck near Abu Simbel, site of the ancient temples of Ramesses II, a popular tourist destination towards the Sudanese border. .
Five others were seriously injured in the accident and were taken to hospital in the nearby city of Aswan, it said. In the statement, Ashraf Attia, the governor of Aswan, said the bodies of the two victims had already been transferred to a morgue.
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In another deadly accident on Thursday, 10 farm workers were killed when a bus overturned after colliding with a tractor in Egypt’s northern Beheira province, local authorities said.
The wreckage of a bus at the crash site on a road between the Egyptian city of Aswan and the famous Abu Simbel temple in Egypt on July 7, 2022. Another bus accident in the same area killed two tourists on July 1. December 2022. .
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Traffic accidents claim thousands of lives each year in the North African country, with most crashes caused by speeding, poor roads or poorly enforced traffic laws.
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Earlier this month, 14 people were killed in a traffic accident involving a minibus and a truck in El-Wadi El-Gedid province in southwestern Egypt. In July, eight people were killed in an accident on the main road between Abu Simbel and Aswan.
