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China Daily | Updated: 2009-02-16 07:36
Bus, truck collide, 16 dead
An Egyptian police official says 16 people have been killed and three seriously wounded when their minibus collided with a truck in northeastern Egypt.
The official says Saturday's accident took place when a speeding truck heading to Ismailia located 120 km east of Cairo crashed against the minibus.
A new tougher traffic law in Egypt went into effect in August in a bid to bring order to the country's dangerous roads, where at least 8,000 people were killed in accidents in 2006.
(China Daily 02/16/2009 page7)
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