7 Killed In Road Accidents In Southern Egypt
Faizan Hashmi Published January 21, 2020 | 05:01 PM
At least seven were killed and 15 others wounded on Tuesday in a chain collision involving three vehicles and three motorbikes in the southern Egyptian province of Sohag, a medical source said
CAIRO, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Jan, 2020 ) :At least seven were killed and 15 others wounded on Tuesday in a chain collision involving three vehicles and three motorbikes in the southern Egyptian province of Sohag, a medical source said.
The accident took place on the province's desert road where two private cars, a microbus and three motorbikes collided because of high speed, an official from Sohag University Hospital told Xinhua.
The dead included a female student and drivers of the motorbikes, the source added on condition of anonymity.
Egypt loses roughly 12,000 lives in traffic accidents every year, with a road traffic fatality rate of 42 deaths per 100,000 people, according to a report by the World Health Organization in 2018.
The majority of the killed are passengers of four-wheelers, although pedestrians also constitute a significant 20 percent of the fatalities, according to the report.
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