Teen labourers among 19 killed in horrific road collision in Egypt

A motortruck collided with a minibus carrying time labourers, 2 of whom were 14-year-old girls, to their workplace.

A motortruck has collided with a minibus carrying workers connected a roadworthy successful Egypt, sidesplitting 19 people, astir of them teenage girls, according to section officials.

The collision occurred arsenic the workers were heading to enactment successful the aboriginal hours of Friday greeting connected a determination roadworthy successful the metropolis of Ashmoun successful the Nile Delta state of Menoufia, northbound of the superior Cairo.

The motortruck collided with the minibus arsenic it carried the labourers to their workplace from their location colony of Kafr al-Sanabsa, according to the state-owned newspaper, Akhbar al-Youm.

Most of the workers were teenagers – 2 of them conscionable 14 – according to a database of the names and ages published by the state-owned daily, Al-Ahram. Egyptian media has dubbed the clang victims “martyrs for their regular bread”.

Some 1.3 cardinal minors are engaged successful immoderate signifier of kid labour successful Egypt, according to authorities figures, and accidents often impact underage labourers travelling to enactment successful overcrowded minibuses successful agrarian areas.

Only 3 radical survived the clang connected Friday, according to a connection from Egypt’s Ministry of Labour, and they were transferred to the General Ashmoun Hospital.

Egypt’s Labour Minister Mohamed Gebran has ordered authorities to compensate the families of the deceased with up to 200,000 Egyptian pounds (about $4,000) each. Each injured idiosyncratic volition besides person 20,000 Egyptian pounds ($400).

Menoufia provincial governor, Ibrahim Abu Leimon, said the origin of the clang would beryllium investigated. Preliminary reports suggest excessive speeding whitethorn person been a cardinal factor.

Abu Leimon besides called connected the country’s Ministry of Transportation to reassess information measures connected the determination road. In April, 5 members of a azygous household died successful a two-car collision connected the aforesaid road.

Deadly postulation accidents assertion thousands of lives each twelvemonth crossed Egypt.

In October 2023, 35 radical were killed, astatine slightest 18 of whom burned to death, successful a “horrific collision” involving a autobus and respective cars connected the Cairo-Alexandria godforsaken road, according to Al-Ahram.

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