Two women, one of them Swedish, have been killed and four others injured in a road traffick accident on the Tur-Aburdeis international road in South Sinai.
Their private car overturned 8 km from the Wadi al-Tur checkpoint, according to South Sinai Security Directorate.
The two women killed were Swedish citizen Mariam Hemdan, 18, and Nazira, 65, from Palestine.
Syrians Heba Saif, 22, Abdel Rahman Heidar, Malak Deeb, 4, and Swedish Eman Heidar, 25, were injured in the incident. The victims were transferred to Tur General Hospital.
Egypt has one of the world’s highest traffic accident mortality rates.
In December, the government’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said the number of car accidents during the first half of 2015 rose by 3.5 percent to a total of 6,916 accidents, compared with 6,685 accidents during the same period in 2014.
The number of deaths, however, decreased by 2.7 percent, from 3,025 to 2,808 deaths in the first half of 2015.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
