36 Sudanese, Two Egyptians Wounded As Bus Overturned On Way To Cairo

Bus Overturned On Way To Cairo

CAIRO, May 7 (NNN-MENA) – At least 38 passengers, including two Egyptians and 36 Sudanese, were wounded yesterday, as a bus they were travelling in, overturned on a desert road, in Egypt’s Beni Suef governorate, south of the capital, Cairo.

The bus, carrying Sudanese citizens fleeing the war-torn country, overturned on its way to Cairo, according to a statement by Beni Suef governorate.

Beni Suef Governor, Mohamad Hany Ghoneim, visited the hospital and called for all necessary healthcare to treat the wounded, said the statement.

Thousands of Sudanese citizens crossed into neighbouring Egypt, to flee the ongoing deadly military clashes, between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, that erupted in mid-April.

According to the Egyptian office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as of May 3, Egypt had received about 50,500 evacuees from Sudan, among them 47,000 Sudanese.

The office said, it is cooperating with the Egyptian Red Crescent, to provide assistance to the evacuees.