Five children die in a traffic accident in Egypt when the vehicle falls into the Nile River

At least five children died and four other adults were injured in a traffic accident in central Egypt after the vehicle they were traveling in collided with a motorcycle and fell into the Nile River, official media reported today.

The accident took place at night on a secondary road in eastern Sohag province in central Egypt, the official Egyptian news agency MENA reported.

According to the first investigations, the driver of the vehicle in which the minors were traveling lost control of the steering wheel and collided with a motorcycle that did not have a license plate and, as a consequence, fell into a channel of the Nile River, said the source, who added that the security forces and ambulances went to the scene of the accident. Among the five minors killed, two of them, ages 8 and 10, were brothers, the source said.

Thousands of deaths in accident

Earlier this month, at least three people were killed, including two children aged 2 and 3, and 42 others injured after a wedding bus collided with a truck on a highway in southern Egypt.

Traffic accidents in Egypt are common due to speeding and poor road conditions, and they leave thousands dead each year.

In 2021, traffic accidents claimed the lives of 7,101 people, compared to 6,164 deaths in 2020, representing an increase of 15.2%, according to a report by the Egyptian official statistics agency CAPMAS, published in August 2021. last year.