22 killed, 33 injured in car crash in southern Egypt

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities say at least 22 people were killed and 33 injured in a car crash on Tuesday near Egypt’s southern province of Minya. They say the crash took place in the early morning when a passenger bus hit a stopped truck on a highway linking the capital of Cairo to the country’s south. Ambulances rushed to the scene to transfer the injured to hospitals in Minya. Traffic accidents kill thousands every year in Egypt, which has a poor transportation safety record. Crashes are mostly caused by speeding, bad roads or poor enforcement of traffic laws.