Dozens of Casualties in Egypt Multi-car Pileup

Tourists gather at the Pyramids of Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, October 26, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Asharq Al Awsat

11:52-28 October 2023 AD ـ 14 Rabi’ Al-Thani 1445 AH

11:37-28 October 2023 AD ـ 14 Rabi’ Al-Thani 1445 AH

Asharq Al Awsat

11:52-28 October 2023 AD ـ 14 Rabi’ Al-Thani 1445 AH

11:37-28 October 2023 AD ـ 14 Rabi’ Al-Thani 1445 AH

Dozens of Casualties in Egypt Multi-car Pileup

Tourists gather at the Pyramids of Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, October 26, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Egypt’s health ministry said at least 32 people were killed in a multi-car pileup Saturday on a highway linking Cairo and the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.

At least 63 others were injured in the crash which involved a passenger bus and other vehicles in Egypt's Beheira governorate, the statement said, adding that fire erupted in some vehicles.

Local media reported that the accident happened when the bus hit a parked vehicle during the foggy morning. Other vehicles crashed into the bus.

Ambulances rushed to the scene to transfer the injured to hospital.

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Israeli Strike Kills Four Fighters on Syria-Lebanon Border, Security Sources Say

A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024, amid escalations in the ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AFP)

10:40-28 August 2024 AD ـ 23 Safar 1446 AH

Israeli Strike Kills Four Fighters on Syria-Lebanon Border, Security Sources Say

An Israeli drone strike on a car crossing through a Syrian checkpoint near the border with Lebanon on Wednesday killed three Palestinian fighters and one member of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, two security sources told Reuters.

The car was not transporting weapons, the sources said. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah or from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, to which one of the sources said the three Palestinian fighters belonged.

Local Syrian official Abdo al-Taqi told a Syrian radio station that a car was targeted on Wednesday morning on the road between the Syrian capital Damascus and Lebanon's capital Beirut, and four people were killed.

Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and other armed factions have launched rockets and drones at Israel from southern Lebanon. The groups have strong ties to Iran and to Syria's government and have transported fighters and weapons through the porous Syrian-Lebanese border.

Israel has not commented on the incident. While it takes responsibility for strikes it carries out on Lebanon, it almost never does the same for strikes it is accused of carrying out in Syria.

Israel has targeted weapons shipments and other military infrastructure in Syria for years and has stepped up its strikes there since October, when the Gaza war began.

Wednesday's drone strike came hours after an Israeli airstrike hit a pickup truck in northeast Lebanon near the Syrian border. A security source told Reuters that the vehicle was carrying military equipment, likely a damaged rocket launcher on the way to be repaired.

Dozens of Casualties in Egypt Multi-car Pileup

Dozens of Casualties in Egypt Multi-car Pileup

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