Thirty-three people were killed and 14 injured in Egypt on Sunday when a truck crashed into a bus carrying pilgrims back home from Makkah, police said. The truck, towing a trailer full of sugar, was trying to overtake a car when it hit the bus head-on at full speed near Minya on the river Nile, some 150 miles south of Cairo.
According to an AFP correspondent at the scene of the crash, the left side of the bus had been completely smashed-in by the force of the impact.
Most of the victims were pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia after performing Umrah as well as Egyptian workers coming back home from the country to mark the end of Ramazan.
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