- Sixteen people were killed and 28 others injured after a bus overturned on the Dahab-Nuweiba road in South Sinai, Egypt.
- The incident took place on a stretch of the Red Sea coast that is popular with tourists.
- Twenty ambulances rushed to the scene of the crash, with the nationalities of the deceased yet to be released.
- Egypt's Health Minister, Dr Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, directed medical teams to operate at full capacity to treat the casualties.
- The incident comes shortly after a separate road incident in Egypt's Ismailia governorate in August left 15 people dead and 32 injured.
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