A further 36 people were injured in the collision
Two people have died after a coach full of tourists — including foreign nationals — crashed into a truck near a beach resort in Egypt.
According to The Mirror, the incident happened along the Ras Gharib-Hurghada road north of the Red Sea near Hurghada in the African nation and left a further 36 people injured.
It is thought 24 people on the coach are foreign, although the nationalities — including of the deceased — have not been disclosed by authorities at this stage.
Several ambulances rushed to the scene in the early hours and have taken those injured to hospitals in and around the tourist hotspot Hurghada.
Authorities told the press they received reports a coach belonging to a Red Sea tourism company, travelling north from Hurghada, and a heavy truck collided in the early hours.
The driver of the coach as well as a passenger have been confirmed as dead.
Egyptian authorities told The Mirror that foreign nationals are among those severely injured.
Hurghada is around 290 miles south of Cairo, the capital of Egypt and the drive which uses part of the Ras Gharib-Hurghada road takes around five hours.
Coaches are often used to run excursions as it is around three hours from Hurghada to the Pyramids of Giza.
Another collision in Egypt recently sae at least two people die, as trains collided in Egypt’s Nile Delta.
Recently, at least two people died after two passenger trains collided in Egypt’s Nile Delta.
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