Bus collides with truck in Red Sea governorate 7,000 died last year on the nation’s roads CAIRO: Eleven people were killed and 27 injured on Sunday when a bus collided with a heavy-duty truck on the Zafarana-Ras Ghareb Road, 40 kilometers north of Ras Ghareb city in the Red Sea Governorate, southeast of Egypt. The deceased and injured were taken to Ras Gharib Central Hospital. Legal action is being initiated by the families of the victims. Fifteen ambulances were dispatched to the scene of the accident when the governorate’s operations room received notification of the collision. A security source said the dead and injured were all Egyptians. The bus had been traveling from Cairo to Hurghada. Last Tuesday, 14 people were killed in a collision between a truck and a minibus in the New Valley Governorate, southwest of Cairo. And on Saturday, 20 people were killed after the minibus they were traveling in flipped over and landed in a canal in the Nile Delta region of northern Egypt, according to prosecutors. The driver, who was one of eight people hurt in the accident in Dakahlia Governorate, had tested positive for drugs, according to prosecutors. Traffic accidents are a regular occurrence in Egypt where roads are neglected and laws frequently broken. In addition, many vehicles are not roadworthy. Egypt is facing a rise in road accident victims. According to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, 7,000 people were killed in accidents last year. At the end 2020, over 57,000 people had been injured in traffic accidents.