At least 57 Egyptians were killed when their bus traveling along a narrow road in southern Egypt plunged into an irrigation canal on Sunday, officials said. Minya Governor Ahmed Diaa said the bus, with at least 70 passengers on board, swerved to avoid an oncoming pickup truck near a village close to the city of Minya, located about 133 miles south of Cairo. Rescuers on small boats searched the canal for passengers, and volunteers pulled bodies out of the water. A crane later lifted the bus out of the canal. One survivor told the Egyptian private television station Dream that a boat came to get him and a friend after the bus plunged into the water, but many people were unable to get out of the bus. The accident took place early Sunday.
