Six people were killed, and another 10 injured after a microbus overturned on the western Assiut-Sohag road, on Thursday. Chief of Assiut Security Directorate Gamal Shukr received notice from the rescue operations room on the accident, which occurred near al-Ghanaym city. Ambulance cars moved to the scene of the accident, and transported victims into the public Al-Iman Hospital’s morgue. Egypt loses roughly 12,000 lives to traffic accidents every year. The country has a road traffic fatality rate of 42 deaths per 100,000 population, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Source: Egypt Independent December 06, 2018 09:22 UTC