Egypt bus crash kills seven passengers, injures 40

A bus crash southeast of Cairo on
Sunday killed seven Egyptian passengers and injured 40
others, a police official said.
The accident happened after the bus collided with a truck
and overturned about 70 kilometers (43 miles) southeast of
Cairo on a road leading to a Red Sea coastal city of
Safaga, said the official who refused to be identified as
he was not a sanctioned spokesman.
The circumstances of the accident were unclear and no
other vehicles were involved. The victims were taken to
hospitals in Suez, a city about 100 kilometers (67 miles)
southeast of Cairo. The truck driver survived, The Associated Press reported.