A six-year-old girl and three other people were killed on Tuesday when a school bus collided with a truck on the highway between Cairo and the northeast seaport of Suez, local reports said.
The school bus driver and two teachers died in the horror smash on the desert highway which injured 22 people, according to daily al-Masry al-Youm.
Most of those injured were students, state-run daily Al-Ahram said on its website quoting Egypt's health ministry.
Deadly car accidents take place almost daily in Egypt, due to poor road safety conditions, poorly maintained infrastructure and loosely enforced traffic regulations.
Over 25,000 lives are lost annually in road accident in Egypt, according to official figures
Eight people were killed and seven others were injured on 21 October when a public bus collided with a microbus in Nasr City on Cairo's eastern outskirts.
Heavy trucks cause almost half Egypt's road accidents, followed by microbuses, the most common means of transport for poorer Egyptians.
