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Seventeen people were killed and 29 injured after a public bus and a heavy transport truck collided on a desert highway in southwestern Egypt, the health ministry said yesterday.
The accident occurred on Wednesday on the Assuit-Kharga highway, some 400km southwest of Cairo, in New Valley province that shares a long border with Libya, medical and security sources said.
Twenty-six ambulances were dispatched to the scene to ferry the injured to hospitals, a health ministry statement said. It was not immediately clear how the accident occurred.
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