6 dead, 7 injured in road accident in Egypt's Suez

Ahram Online , Monday 13 Apr 2015

The accident took place on the Suez-Ain Sokhna highway on Monday morning

Six people were killed and seven injured in a road accident in Suez governorate on Monday, state news agency MENA reported.

Three vehicles collided – a truck, a microbus and a car – on the Suez-Ain Sokhna highway.

A medical source told MENA the injured were transported to two hospitals in Suez, and at least one had sustained a serious injury.

Road accidents, which official statistics say claim 18 lives a day, are commonplace in Egypt due to ill-maintained roads as well as disregard for traffic laws.

A road accident in Upper Egypt in March, between a microbus and two trucks, left 16 dead.

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