Car accident on desertway Alexandria-Cairo: 32 dead

                                                 Ahram online

At least 32 people have been killed in a multi-car pileup on a highway in Egypt’s Beheira governorate, according to authorities. More than 60 people were also reported injured in the road accident on Saturday, Egypt’s health ministry said. The collision took place in morning fog when a passenger bus on its way to Cairo slammed into a parked vehicle on the highway linking the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, according to local media and authorities. Other cars slammed into the bus, with some catching fire.

The state-run al-Ahram newspaper said there was “a horrific collision on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road near Wadi al-Natroun”, about 160km (100 miles) north of Cairo. Images posted on social media showed an overturned truck lying across the fast lane on charred tarmac. Further on is at least one bus and a minibus, both largely gutted by fire, as well as many cars, some still in flames.