EGYPT: AT LEAST 25 EGYPTIANS DIE AND ANOTHER 25 INJURED WHEN A BUS CRASHED INTO A TRUCK

Record ID: 648656

  • Title: EGYPT: AT LEAST 25 EGYPTIANS DIE AND ANOTHER 25 INJURED WHEN A BUS CRASHED INTO A TRUCK
  • Date: 7th November 2002
  • Summary: (W4) CAIRO, EGYPT (NOVEMBER 6, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. LV SCENE OF BUS CRASH 0.05 2. SCU ZOOM OUT INTERIOR BUS WITH BLOOD 0.16 3. MV INTERIORS AND SLV EXTERIOR CRASHED BUS (4 SHOTS) 0.38 4. SLV CHAIRS THROWN OUT OF THE BUS WITH BLOOD ON THEM (3 SHOTS) 0.53 5. SLV / MV DAMAGED TRUCK 1.00 6. SLV EXTERIOR HELIOPOLIS HOSPITAL 1.07 7. MV PATIENTS IN BED IN HELIOPOLIS HOSPITAL 1.10 8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) SURVIVOR, IBRAHIM MOHAMED GAD, 31, SAYING "It happened at 5:30 in the morning, suddenly the chairs moved from their place and flew forward to the front. I did not feel myself, until I was thrown outside the bus in the sand." 1.29 9. MV DOCTOR CHECKING INJURED MAN (2 SHOTS) 1.47 10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) DR. AYMAN OMAR, SAYING "At 8:15 in the morning, the accident arrived from the Cairo-Suez highway. At first nine injured people arrived at the hospital, two of them dead. The other seven seriously injured. Two out of the seven had internal bleeding in the brain and the other we suspected had internal bleeding. Seven were fine and the others arrived later. Then the health minister visited them all." 2.21 11. MV DOCTORS CHECKING INJURED PATIENTS 2.26 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd November 2002 12:00
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  • Location: CAIRO, EGYPT
  • Country: Egypt
  • Reuters ID: LVA4UVP54KAZ9YFPPQRY1MZM7WT7
  • Story Text: At least 25 Egyptians died and another 25 were injured
    when a bus crashed into a truck outside Cairo.

    The bus, filled with workers returning from the Sinai
    resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, piled into a truck transporting
    gravel that was trying to perform a u-turn on the road, 62 km
    (39 miles) east of the capital.

    Police, who had earlier given a death toll of 29, said 18
    died immediately on impact and seven died later in hospital.

    The crash sheared off the front of the bus, which was
    covered in blood.

    One survivor said the bus had not been speeding, but that
    passengers were thrown forward on loosely fitted chairs.

    "Everyone was thrown to the front of the bus as the chairs
    came out of their sockets," said Ibrahim Gad, 31, speaking
    from Heliopolis Hospital in northeast Cairo, adding that most
    people were sleeping at the time of the crash.

    Egypt has one of the worst traffic accident rates in the
    world, due largely to speeding, reckless driving and bad road
    conditions.


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