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10 killed in car accident in Egypt

Xinhua, January 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

At least 10 people were killed and 15 others injured as a private car collided with a public mini-bus on Wednesday on a desert highway going through Upper Egypt's Sohag province, some 400 km south of the capital Cairo, official MENA news agency reported.

The accident took place on the Sohag-Red Sea Eastern Desert Road near Sohag's Akhmim district and utmost emergency alert was raised at four main hospitals in the province, MENA quoted a Health Ministry official in Sohag as saying.

Last November, a total of 16 people were killed and 18 others injured as a bus collided with a truck and a private vehicle while running on Cairo-Alexandria Agriculture Road, causing a big fire.

Road accidents in the most populous Arab country kill at least 12,000 people every year, according to official reports.

Lack of highway monitoring systems, poor road maintenance and negligence of traffic rules are behind the high rate of traffic accidents in Egypt. Endit