22 killed in road accident in southern Egypt

Cairo, July 19 At least 22 people were killed and 33 injured in a car crash on Tuesday near Egypt’s southern province of Minya, authorities said. The crash took place in the early morning when a passenger bus hit a...

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Updated At : 07:49 PM Jul 19, 2022 IST

Cairo, July 19

At least 22 people were killed and 33 injured in a car crash on Tuesday near Egypt’s southern province of Minya, authorities said.

The crash took place in the early morning when a passenger bus hit a parked truck on a highway linking the capital of Cairo to the country’s south, local authorities in Minya said in a statement.

Authorities in a statement said the truck crew were changing tyres on the roadside when the bus hit the truck in the city of Malawi in Minya province, about 220 km south of Cairo.

Ambulances rushed to the scene to transfer the injured to hospitals in Minya.