At least 18 people, most of them fishermen, were killed and three others injured after a truck collided with a passenger pick-up in Egypt’s northeastern Port Said province, according to media reports. The crash took place around 12:30pm local time on Thursday on the 30 June Axis highway, south of Port Said, Egypt’s state-run daily Al-Ahram reported. Photos shared online showed the pick-up badly crushed between two large cargo trucks, with wreckage scattered across the roadway. Collisions frequently involve heavy trucks and passenger vehicles, with speeding, poor road conditions and weak enforcement of traffic laws often cited as major causes. Last June, a separate truck and minibus crash killed 19 people, most of them teenage girls, local officials said at the time.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 20, 2026 11:35 UTC