Suez bus collision kills 24

Twenty-four people died in a bus crash near a power plant in Suez, east of Cairo, media reported on Tuesday morning. 

A security source told privately owned daily Al-Masry Al-Youm that the crash happened when the bus hit a pick-up truck carrying stones, which had stopped on the road. 

The crash, which happened near the Eyoun Moussa power plant, injured another 25 people, 11 of whom are currently in a severe condition, Al-Masry Al-Youm reported. 

State-owned Al-Ahram cited eyewitnesses recounting the crash. Mahmoud Hosni, who was initially in the pick-up truck, told the portal that he had taken a break with the driver after the truck had stopped working and they failed to repair it. The two men were waiting for a mechanic to arrive when the crash took place, Hosni said. 

Mohamed Gomaa, who works in a nearby village, told Al-Ahram that the crash happened in the very early hours of Tuesday morning. The bus has swerved to the other side of the road, he explained, due to the intensity of the collision. Gomaa said he watched parts of the vehicle come away as it crashed, and afterwards saw the wounded screaming inside the bus and dead people scattered amongst them.

The World Health Organization had reported in a 2012 report that Egypt loses 12,000 lives to road traffic accidents on an annual basis, with a fatality rate of 42 deaths per 100,000 of the population. The report slammed the poor enforcement of speed laws as well as seat belt wearing and helmet wearing laws. 

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