Eight killed in bus crash in Cairo

At least eight people were killed and seven others wounded on Friday in a bus crash in an eastern suburb of the capital Cairo, the Egyptian Health Ministry said.

The death toll may increase because two persons were seriously injured, a medical source was quoted by official news agency MENA as saying.

Passenger microbuses are everywhere in the most populous Arab country as the most common means of transport for most Egyptians with low income.

It moves swiftly and randomly all over the place and crowds of people getting in and out nonstop.

Official reports say that road accidents in Egypt claim over 13,000 lives every year. Although heavy trucks are responsible for almost half of them, microbuses come next due to the violations of their drivers and their negligence of traffic laws. Endit