According to Ismail El-Hefnawy, the health ministry's undersecretary in Suez, more than 15 ambulances rushed to the scene of the deadly crash and transferred the injured to Suez General Hospital to receive necessary treatment.

Those injured suffered from bruises, abrasions and fractures, and are receiving the necessary medical care, state news agency MENA reported.

This is the third major deadly accident on the Suez-Sokhna highway in less than a week.

On Friday, eight people were killed and 43 were injured when a double-decker bus rolled over on the Cairo-Ain Sokhna Road.

Last Wednesday, three people were killed and 30 were injured when a truck loaded with asphalt and a passenger bus crashed on Galala Road.

Egypt has recently tightened it traffic laws and is also forging ahead with the National Road Project in order to improve the country’s road network and reduce deadly accidents. 

By 2019, Egypt climbed to 28th place in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report in terms of the quality of its road infrastructure, compared to 118th place in 2014.

Moreover, the country recorded a 9.3 percent drop in traffic injuries in 2021 compared to 2020, according to a recent report released by the country’s Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) in July 2022.

The number of traffic injuries across Egypt in 2021 was 51,511, down from 2020’s 56,789, the CAPMAS report said.