Sixteen Egyptian workers were killed when the two minibuses they were travelling in crashed into a truck in fog today, the semi-official Al-Ahramnewspaper has reported.
Thirteen others were wounded in the accident on a desert road near El Alamein, the daily said. The workers had been returning to their jobs in Libya after visiting their homes in southern Egypt.
It was not immediately known what caused the crash. Egypt has one of the highest road accident rates in the world.