CAIRO: Nine people were killed and 11 injured in northern Egypt today when two minibuses collided on a busy highway in the Nile Delta, the health ministry said.
The crash in Menoufiya, about 80km north of Cairo, was the second deadly accident on the same highway in just a week.
On June 27, 19 people were killed, most of them teenage girls working as day labourers, when a truck collided with their minibus.
Egypt’s roads claim thousands of lives each year, with crashes often blamed on reckless driving, poor maintenance and weak law enforcement.