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Four dead, 27 injured in car accident on Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road

Four people were killed and 27 others wounded in a car accident in the early hours of Thursday morning on the Cairo-Alexandria Desert road, disrupting traffic for an hour 53 kilometers outside of Cairo.

The dead and the wounded were taken to the 6 October, Sheikh Zayed and Haram hospitals.
 
Preliminary investigation revealed that a truck coming from Alexandria overturned due to heavy fog and collided with five other cars.
 
The truck driver was arrested pending investigation and a drug test.
 
 
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
 

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