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Ten ambulances rushed to the scene, and the Nile security forces were still combing the area in search for survivors, he added. Traffic accidents are common in Egypt due to poorly maintained roads and a common disregard for traffic laws. A 2012 World Health Organization report showed that at least 12,000 people die in such accidents every year in the country. On Friday, 33 people were killed as two passenger buses collided on a highway some 50 km away from Red Sea resort city Sharm El-Sheikh. Last March, at least 25 people were killed and 27 others injured when a bus collided with a truck at the entrance of Egypt’ s south Sinai. In May, nine people were killed when a minibus fell into a river in southern Egypt’s Menia province.
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