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7 killed in Egypt bus overturn

05 September 2014 22:36 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. At least seven people were killed and 17 others injured on Friday in a fatal bus overturn on a desert highway through Wadi al-Natron city of Beheira province, some 130 km north to the capital Cairo, state-run MENA news agency reported, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

According to the report, the tourist bus overturned while carrying some employees of an oil company and their families who were coming back to Cairo after a vacation in northern seaside Alexandria province.

Meanwhile, four other people died on Friday when an over-speed car overturned into a canal on a highway at Nag' Hammadi city of Upper Egypt's Qena province.

Road accidents in the most populous Arab country kill at least 12,000 people every year, according to official reports. The lack of highway monitoring systems, poor road maintenance and negligence of traffic rules are behind the high rate of road accidents in Egypt.

Over the past two weeks, at least 70 Egyptians were killed and over 100 others injured in similar tragic accidents in South Sinai, Sharqiya and Luxor provinces in the country.