5 killed in road accident in Egypt

Five members of a family have been killed in a road accident in Egypt's Sharqeyia Governorate, a security official said.
The incident took place when the car they were travelling veered off the road and fell into a lake yesterday.
The husband jumped from the car but his wife and four daughters drowned, the official said.
Security forces had pulled out four bodies of five and were still looking for the fifth one.
Egypt has one of the world's highest traffic accident rates due to careless driving, and road and vehicle conditions leading to thousands of death and injuries every year.

A recent report by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said there were 15,578 car accidents in Egypt in 2013, up 0.4 per cent from the year before, which claimed the lives of 6,716 people and injured 22,411 others.