CAIRO, Feb 11 (NNN-MENA) – At least nine people were killed and several others wounded yesterday, after a passenger microbus collided with a truck on El Wahat Road in Giza province, south-west of the capital, Cairo, an Egyptian Health Ministry official said.
“Nine people were killed and nine others wounded in the accident,” said Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar, spokesman of the Health Ministry, adding that, some of the wounded were in critical conditions.
Traffic accidents claim thousands of lives in the country every year. Most of the accidents were caused by speeding, negligence of traffic rules and laws, and poor maintenance of roads.
Over the past few years, Egypt has been upgrading its road network, by building new roads and bridges and repairing old ones, to ease traffic and reduce relevant accidents.
