A truck collided with a minibus carrying day labourers, two of whom had been 14-year-old women, to their office.
A truck has collided with a minibus carrying staff on a street in Egypt, killing 19 individuals, most of them teenage women, in accordance with native officers.
The collision occurred as the employees had been heading to work within the early hours of Friday morning on a regional street within the metropolis of Ashmoun within the Nile Delta province of Menoufia, north of the capital Cairo.
The truck collided with the minibus because it carried the labourers to their office from their dwelling village of Kafr al-Sanabsa, in accordance with the state-owned newspaper, Akhbar al-Youm.
A lot of the staff had been youngsters – two of them simply 14 – in accordance with an inventory of the names and ages printed by the state-owned day by day, Al-Ahram. Egyptian media has dubbed the crash victims “martyrs for his or her day by day bread”.
Some 1.3 million minors are engaged in some type of youngster labour in Egypt, in accordance with authorities figures, and accidents typically contain underage labourers travelling to work in overcrowded minibuses in rural areas.
Solely three individuals survived the crash on Friday, in accordance with an announcement from Egypt’s Ministry of Labour, and so they had been transferred to the Basic Ashmoun Hospital.
Egypt’s Labour Minister Mohamed Gebran has ordered authorities to compensate the households of the deceased with as much as 200,000 Egyptian kilos (about $4,000) every. Every injured particular person will even obtain 20,000 Egyptian kilos ($400).
Menoufia provincial governor, Ibrahim Abu Leimon, mentioned the reason for the crash could be investigated. Preliminary studies recommend extreme rushing could have been a key issue.
Abu Leimon additionally known as on the nation’s Ministry of Transportation to reassess security measures on the regional street. In April, 5 members of a single household died in a two-car collision on the identical street.
Lethal visitors accidents declare hundreds of lives yearly throughout Egypt.
In October 2023, 35 individuals had been killed, at the very least 18 of whom burned to dying, in a “horrific collision” involving a bus and a number of other automobiles on the Cairo-Alexandria desert street, in accordance with Al-Ahram.
