School bus crash in Egypt kills 16
Updated: 2014-11-06 09:50
(Agencies)
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CAIRO - At least 16 people, mostly children, were killed on Wednesday when a school bus crashed into three other vehicles on a desert road in the Nile Delta north of Cairo, state television said.
The relatives of students and members of the public look at the wreckage of a school bus after it crashed in Damanhur November 5, 2014. [Photo/Agencies] |
Photos published online by privately-owned news outlets showed the bus engulfed in flames and later reduced to a charred metal frame, suggesting many of the victims were burned alive.
Eighteen people were also wounded in the crash and transported to hospital, a local health ministry official told Reuters.
Wednesday's accident came less than a month after 30 people died in a bus crash in southern Egypt. Hundreds die and thousands are wounded every year in Egyptian road accidents, often caused by reckless driving and poor roads.
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