CAIRO, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Thirteen people were killed and two others injured on Tuesday in a devastating collision between a microbus and a trailer truck in Egypt's central Asyut province, the province's media office said in a statement.

The collision between a microbus and a cement-laden truck occurred on the Qawsiya agricultural road in Asyut, said the statement.

Ambulances rushed to the scene and evacuated the dead and the injured to nearby hospitals, it added.

Egypt has a high rate of traffic accidents. According to the official statistics agency CAPMAS, 5,861 people were killed due to road accidents in 2023. Enditem

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