At least 50 people were injured this Friday at overturn the bus in which they traveled the Al Galala road, which connects the provinces of Suez and the Red Sea, in the east of Egypt, towards the Monastery of Saint Anthonyaccording to the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior in a press release.
The security director of the Red Sea province, Hassan Abdel Aziz, reported in a statement from the road accident after receiving a notification from the Rescue Operations Room warning that “a bus carrying more than 50 people had overturned while en route to the San Antonio Monastery.”
In the note, he added that 35 ambulances went to the scene of the accident to transfer the injured to Ras Ghareb Central Hospital in the southern city of Hurghada on the Red Sea coast.
The Egyptian Ministry of Health subsequently reported that all the injured have been released from the hospital after receiving medical treatment.
“The accident caused various injuries to 52 passengers of the bus. abrasions and bruises. “31 of them were transported by ambulance to Ras Ghareb Central Hospital, while 21 injured were treated at the accident scene without requiring transfer,” he added.
The competent authorities have already started investigations to clarify the causes of the accident of this bus in which Thirty-one young girls who were going to the monastery were slightly injured.
The bus was heading on the Al Galala road towards the Coptic Orthodox monastery of Saint Anthony, located in an oasis in Egypt’s eastern desert, hidden in the mountains of the Red Sea region, south of the Suez province, and approximately 334 kilometers. southeast of Cairo.
This is not the first time an accident has occurred on this road.where in the middle of last month In October, at least 12 university students died and 40 others were injured after his bus overturned while returning to Cairo after finishing his day at Al Galala University on the Red Sea coast.
THE Road accidents are common in Egypt due to inappropriate speed, the failure of many drivers to comply with safety conditions and the poor condition of some of the country’s roads.
