At least 14 people, including 12 schoolchildren, drowned today when the bus they were travelling in crashed and plunged into a canal in southern Egypt, local police said.
The children, aged between 10 and 12, were on a public bus taking them home after classes when it hit a lorry before crashing into the canal 750 kilometres south of Cairo.
The police said the toll could rise, as emergency services were still trying to retrieve more bodies. The number of passengers on the bus was not known.
Twenty-eight other people, whose ages were not specified, were injured in the incident. Another six escaped unhurt from the waters near the villages of al-Qaraya and al-Mashabek, the police said.
Both vehicles plunged into the canal after their collision, the reasons for which were unknown.
AFP AFP