At least 21 die in bus accident in Egypt's South Sinai
“At least 21 people were killed in a bus accident on Egypt's Dahab-Nuweibaa road in South Sinai on Wednesday, the health ministry said. A number of Jordanians were on the bus and initial information ind…”
A number of Jordanians were on the bus and initial information indicated some were killed and injured, Jordan's foreign ministry said. The area along the Red Sea coast is popular with tourists. Twenty ambulances rushed to the scene of the accident, between the popular tourist towns of Dahab and Nuweiba on South Sinai's eastern coast, the ministry said.
The victims included 10 people from Jordan, kingdom. "Ten Jordanians died after a passenger bus overturned on the Dahab-Nuweiba road in Egypt's South Sinai governorate," Jordan's official Al-Mamlaka channel said, adding that the bus was carrying 43 people in total.
Authorities said the injured were receiving medical care, but did not reveal the cause of the crash. The area is a popular tourist destination, known for its marine biodiversity, natural beauty, and mountain hiking trails.
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Car crashes are common in Egypt and often blamed on reckless driving, poor maintenance, and uneven law enforcement. Last month, at least 18 people, many of them teenagers, were killed in northern Egypt when two pick-up trucks carrying agricultural day-labourers crashed.
Last year, nearly 6,000 people died in road accidents across the country, 's state statistics agency.
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