22 Killed, 33 Injured in Car Crash in Southern Egypt

22 Killed, 33 Injured in Car Crash in Southern Egypt
An ambulance in Cairo, Egypt, on May 26, 2017. Mohamed El-Raai/AFP via Getty Images
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CAIRO—At least 22 people were killed and 33 injured in a car crash on Tuesday near Egypt’s southern province of Minya, authorities said.

The crash took place in the early morning when a passenger bus hit a stopped trailer truck on a highway linking the capital of Cairo to the country’s south, local authorities in Minya said in a statement. The bus was heading toward Cairo.