Twelve people died and three were injured by in a traffic accident on the highway connecting the southern governorates of Beni Suef and Minya on Thursday.
During the incident, a van transporting 15 people fell into the Ibrahimeya sluiceway, one kilometre south of Al-Fashn town in Beni Suef.
River rescue forces managed to rescue three people and recover one dead body. The search for the remaining eleven people is still ongoing.
A similar deadly accident took place on the Kawamel road in nearby Sohag governorate earlier this month, when 14 university students lost their lives. The van transporting the students from the university's new headquarters fell into a sluiceway as the driver attempted to avoid a truck coming from the opposite direction.
Also this month, a bus transporting school students in Beheira in northern Egypt collided with a truck, leaving 18 students dead. The bus driver was convicted of driving under the influence of drugs and sentenced to ten years in prison, with a fine of LE50,000.
Egypt loses around 12,000 lives to road accidents every year, according to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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