17 dead in Egypt road accidents

CAIRO - At least 17 people were killed and five were injured in two road accidents in Egypt Wednesday, police said.

A truck crashed into a minibus and flipped onto it, killing 14 people and injuring three others on a highway between Cairo and Alexandria.

Meanwhile, three members of the same family were killed in a crash between two vehicles in Qalyubiya, just north of Cairo.

Around 8,000 people die and 32,000 are injured in road accidents in Egypt each year, according to official estimates.

Egypt’s highways and roads are known to be more hazardous over the summer period as well as the ongoing month of Ramadan, during which many Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.