Twenty-eight people, including three foreigners, two Malaysians and an Indian, died in separate traffic accidents Saturday in Egypt, the first caused by a bus collision with a truck, while the second resulted from a similar collision between two tourist buses and a truck.
The official media said that 22 Egyptians were killed and eight wounded as a result of the collision of a bus that was carrying them in an evening truck on the Port Said - Damietta road in northern Egypt.
"22 workers and a worker were killed and 8 were injured this evening, Saturday, in a bus bus accident collision with the workers of a ready-to-wear garment factory in Port Said, with a transport vehicle in front of Al-Fardous Village, Port Said Damietta Road," the state-run website reported.
The bodies were taken to three hospitals in Port Said, according to the same source.
Earlier, six people were killed in a collision between two tourist buses and a transport truck on the Ain Sukhna Road in Suez Governorate in Egypt, according to a security official and medical source.
"The director of Suez Security received a notification from the Road Safety Administration stating that a bus (two buses) and a transport vehicle collided next to a popular tourist resort on the Ain Sukhna-Zaafrana road," the security official told AFP.
The accident killed six people and wounded at least 24, the sources said.
In turn, a medical source inside Suez General Hospital, where the dead were taken, said that the dead were "two tourists from Malaysia, an Indian, and three Egyptians."
The medical official stated that the Egyptians are the driver of one of the buses, a security component and a tour guide.
The source added that "some of the injured are in critical conditions."