16 Killed, 18 Injured in Microbus-Bus Collision in South Sinai

On Saturday, sixteen people were killed and 18 others injured after a microbus and a bus collided in Egypt’s South Sinai.

The bus was heading to the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh when the collision occurred on the Al Tur-Martyr Ahmed Hamdy Tunnel highway about 10 Kilometres before Al Tur city.

Ambulances rushed to the scene of the accident and the bodies and the injured were transported to hospitals. The injured are in a stable condition.

Saturday's accident is the latest in a series of major car crashes over the past few days. On Friday, a trailer truck hit six cars and a microbus, injuring one person on the Port Said-Damietta road.

Also, two people were killed and 45 injured in two other car collisions on Thursday on the Al-Sokhna-Galala road.

Deadly road accidents take place on a near-daily basis in Egypt, which suffers from poorly maintained road infrastructure and loosely applied traffic regulations.

Last year, the parliament approved new amendments to the traffic law to impose stricter penalties for traffic violations and the adoption of a point system that will be applied for the first time in the country’s history.