Truck crash in Egypt kills 18, many of them child labourers

Most of the dead are age 13 and 14, medical source says At least 18 people, many of them children, have died when a pick-up truck carrying agricultural labourers crashed in Egypt. The crash on Tuesday happened on a link road in the Al-Dawawis area of Ismailia governorate, according to Egypt’s Al-Ahram news. Egypt’s Ministry of Health said there were 47 casualties, including about 30 injured. Victims were rushed to hospital in the nearby town of El-Kassasin. “Most of the dead are children 13 and 14 years old,” a medical source at the hospital told AFP. The youngest victim was 10 years old The workers were mostly from two villages in Sharqiya governorate and were employed on a farm in Ismailia, a local security source said.

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