A traffic accident involving a microbus and a larger bus left at least 16 people dead and 18 others injured in Egypt's Sinai, health officials said on Saturday. The crash took place when a microbus collided with a public transportation bus on a road linking the city of Tor in southern Sinai to the city of Suez, the Health Ministry said in a statement. The collision happened 10 kilometers (about 6 miles) from Tor, police said. The Health Ministry said it deployed at least 13 ambulances to the scene and that the injured were taken to hospitals in southern Sinai. — Agencies