Thirty-three people were killed and 14 injured when a minibus and a truck collided on a desert road in southern Egypt on Sunday, police sources said. The sources said all of the dead and injured were travelling on the bus and that they were mainly workers going home to celebrate the end of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan and pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia. They added that the cause of the collision, which took place shortly after sunset around 200 km (125 miles) south of Cairo, was not immediately clear. Egypt has one of the highest road accident rates in the world, largely due to speeding and poor quality roads. --SP 0136 Local Time 2236 GMT
