Asian tourists among 28 killed in two Egypt road accidents
- Two Malaysians and an Indian died after two buses carrying tourists collided with a truck east of Cairo
- A separate deadly crash involved a bus transporting labourers from a garment factory in Port Said
At least 28 people including textile workers and several Asian tourists were killed in two separate road crashes in Egypt, official media and other sources said.
The deadliest accident occurred Saturday when a bus transporting textile workers collided with a car on the road between the cities of Port Said and Damietta in northern Egypt, state-run Al-Ahram newspaper said on its website.
At least 22 men and women who worked for a clothing factory were killed and eight others injured, the report said.
The accident came only hours after two buses carrying tourists collided with a truck east of Cairo on the road to the Ain Sokhna resort on the Red Sea, according to a security official.
A medical source said two Malaysian women and an Indian man were killed along with three Egyptians – a bus driver, a tour guide and a security guard.
At least 24 others were injured, several of them tourists and some left in serious condition, the medical source said without giving further details.