At least 30 passengers were killed and 41 others seriously injured today when two tourist buses collided on a highway near Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt.
Thirty people were killed in the accident 50 km near Sharm el-Sheikh. The toll could increase, said Mohamed Lashin, Health Ministry Undersecretary in South Sinai.
"Still there is a number of bodies and injured people under the two buses," said Lashin.
The victims are of different nationalities, he said.
Egypt has one of the world's highest traffic accident rates due to careless driving, road and vehicle conditions which leads to death and injury of thousands 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.
