At least 29 people, including children, were killed and 16 injured on Thursday in a traffic pile-up south of Cairo blamed on early morning fog, police and Egypt’s official MENA news agency said.
Trucks, minibuses and cars crashed into each other because of poor visibility on the main road heading to Upper Egypt about 80-km south of the capital, a police official told AFP.
“One or two of the fatalities happened when people got out of their vehicles to inspect the damage,” a security source told AFP. Ambulances rushed to the scene where the death toll is expected to rise because some of the injured were reported to be in critical condition.
Vehicles continued to crash for an hour, another security source said, littering a 300-metre stretch of road with tangled wreckage, severed limbs and bodies, some still trapped in their vehicles. The key artery linking north and south Egypt was cut for several hours while the wreckage was removed. Witnesses described scenes of wailing and anger from relatives receiving the bodies of loved ones at the local morgue.
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