At least 17 people were killed late on Tuesday when a minibus collided with a truck on a desert highway in southern Egypt, police officials said, APA reports citing Al-Watan.
They said four people were injured in the accident in Sohag province and taken to hospital.
Fifteen ambulances rushed to the scene of the accident to take the injured to the main Sohag hospital and the bodies of the deceased to the local morgue, police said.
Road accidents kill thousands every year in Egypt, a country home to 103 million people, and has a poor transport safety record, chiefly because of speeding, bad roads, and poor enforcement of traffic laws.
Two weeks ago, at least 23 people were killed when a passenger bus collided with a truck on a desert road in Egypt's Minya province south of Cairo.
That collision, near the city of Malawy, about 200 kilometers south of the Egyptian capital, injured 30.
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