Five other people were seriously injured in the crash and were taken to a hospital in nearby Aswan city, he added. In the statement, Ashraf Attia, governor of Aswan, said the bodies of the two victims had already been transferred to a morgue.
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In another fatal twist of fate on Thursday, 10 farmworkers were killed when a bus overturned after colliding with a tractor in northern Egypt’s Beheira province, the local government said.
Road injuries claim thousands of lives every year in the North African country, and injuries are basically caused by speeding, poor roads or poorly enforced traffic rules.
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Earlier this month, another 14 people were killed in a twist of fate on the road involving a minibus and truck in Egypt’s southwestern province of El-Wadi El-Gedid. In July, another 8 people were killed in a twist of fate on the main road between Abu Simbel and Aswan.