At least 12 people were killed and 33 injured in Egypt on Monday after a bus overturned on a highway connecting Cairo to the Red Sea coast, the Egyptian health ministry said.
According to local media reports, the students on board the vehicle were returning from their classes to their dormitory when the crash occured.
A group of ambulances arrived at the area to transport the injured to hospital; the ministry did not specify further details about the condition of those wounded.
The ministry did not state what led to the crash; the driver has been arrested as part of a probe into the accident.
The privately owned pro-state Sada al-Balad news channel said on its website that initial investigations had concluded the bus driver was speeding and lost control over the vehicle.
Road accidents left 7,101 people dead in Egypt in 2021, a 15.2% increase compared with 2020, statistics agency CAPMAS said in a report in 2022.
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