As a result of the accident, 14 people were killed at the scene of the accident. Another 42 passengers were injured.

According to local media, a traffic accident on the road connecting Cairo with the city of Beni-Sueyf. In total in the cabin of the bus during the accident, according to the AP, there were 62 passengers.

The bus collided with a pickup truck, then pulled off the freeway and fell on the road that passed below.

The agency notes that the bus belonged to a travel agency, but in Egypt there is a practice of leasing tourist buses for inter-city traffic in the "dead season" of the tourism industry.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, on Vinnichin on the road Zhitomir-Mogilev-Podolsky on August 28 car crashed into a bus with passengers. The driver of the car was killed.