At Least 16 Killed in Car Crash in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula

Date: 08 January 2022 - 21:41

News ID: ۹۸۶۲۵

CAIRO (AP) – A traffic accident Saturday involving a microbus and a larger bus left at least 16 people dead and 18 others injured in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, health officials said. The crash took place when a microbus collided with a public transportation bus on a road linking the city of Tor in southern Sinai to the city of Suez, the Health Ministry said in a statement. The collision happened 10 kilometers (about 6 miles) from Tor, police said. The Health Ministry said it deployed at least 13 ambulances to the scene and that the injured were taken to hospitals in southern Sinai.