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File photo of tour buses that crashed into each another are seen on Hurgada highway, about 403 km (250 miles) from the capital Cairo, December 2, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer
CAIRO, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Fourteen people were killed when a minivan and a truck crashed into each other late on Saturday in the southern Egyptian province of Minya, medical and security sources said.
Egypt has one of the world's highest rates of road and railway accidents, due to careless driving and the condition of roads and vehicles. Hundreds die and thousands are injured in traffic accidents every year. (Reporting by Omar Fahmy and Mahmoud Mourad in Cairo and Tereza Kamel in Minya; Writing by Maggie Fick; Editing by Louise Ireland)