The state-run Middle East News Agency says the accident happened early Friday morning on a highway linking the Red Sea resort city of Hurghada with port of Ras Gharib in southeast Egypt.
The agency said that the bus, carrying about 40 passengers, was speeding and overturned, killing a mother and her two-year-old toddler along with two other men. Among the injured were three Germans and one Ukrainian.
Ambulances immediately transferred the injured to Hurghada Public Hospital, and some critical cases were then taken to Gouna Hospital and the Nile Hospital.
The governor of the Red Sea, Major General Mahmoud Assem, told state television that he asked doctors from the military hospital in Hurghada to help treat the injured.
Red Sea security head Major General Mostafa Bedair was notified, as was the Red Sea prosecution, which will begin investigations.
Assem requested that the head of prosecution in Hurghada take the testimony of the injured and give permission for the burial of the dead.
Road accidents are common in Egypt due to badly maintained roads and vehicles and poor enforcement of traffic laws.
Police estimate that road accidents kill about 6,000 people a year in Egypt, a nation of about 84 million.
Saturday 21 July 2012
http://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-speeding-us-overturns-killing-4-injuring-35/
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