A truck collided with a minibus carrying day labourers, two of whom have been 14-year-old women, to their office.
A truck has collided with a minibus carrying staff on a highway in Egypt, killing 19 individuals, most of them teenage women, in response to native officers.
The collision occurred as the employees have been heading to work within the early hours of Friday morning on a regional highway 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 response to the state-owned newspaper, Akhbar al-Youm.
Many of the staff have been youngsters – two of them simply 14 – in response to a listing of the names and ages revealed 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 baby labour in Egypt, in response to authorities figures, and accidents usually contain underage labourers travelling to work in overcrowded minibuses in rural areas.
Solely three individuals survived the crash on Friday, in response to a press release from Egypt’s Ministry of Labour, and so they have 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 individual may even obtain 20,000 Egyptian kilos ($400).
Menoufia provincial governor, Ibrahim Abu Leimon, stated the reason for the crash can be investigated. Preliminary stories recommend extreme dashing 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 highway. In April, 5 members of a single household died in a two-car collision on the identical highway.
Lethal visitors accidents declare 1000’s of lives yearly throughout Egypt.
In October 2023, 35 individuals have been killed, at the least 18 of whom burned to loss of life, in a “horrific collision” involving a bus and a number of other automobiles on the Cairo-Alexandria desert highway, in response to Al-Ahram.