The Eastern Desert Road witnessed an accident involving a public transport bus and a heavy transport vehicle with a trailer near the village of Al Barsha in Mallawy District, Minya Governorate, resulting in the death of 22 people and the injury of 33 others.
The accident resulted in the death of Mahmoud Hamdi Mahmoud, 27 years old, a veterinarian from Assiut Governorate, Omar Ahmed Mahmoud Shalaby, 37 years old, from Sohag Governorate, Ahmed Bahaa Abdel Aziz, 35 years old, an employee from Assiut Governorate, and Laila Mohamed Marei, 65 years old, from Cairo Governorate, and 18 other unidentified bodies As of this writing.
The accident also resulted in the injury of Mohamed Farag Fahmy, 24 years old, Sohag, Mona Abdo Ali, 55 years old, Assiut, Omar Mustafa Mahmoud, 20 years old, student of Assiut, Ahmed Mukhtar Mohamed, sales representative, 35 years old, Assiut, Sarah Noshy Abdel Alim, 33 years old, Amer Youssef Saad, 65 years old, Assiut, and Raymond. Gad’s birth, 31 years old, Assiut, Amir Amer Youssef, 35 years old, Assiut, Marwa Mustafa Ahmed, 22 years old, Assiut, Abdullah Ahmed Gouda, 11 years old, student, Qutb Hussein Mustafa, 50, a Sunni, Giza contractor, Christine Fahmy Habib, 25 years old, Assiut, Mohamed Gamal Tawfik, 26 years old, and Mina. Ayman Sobhy, 23, a student, Muhammad Ali Ismail, 27, Sohag, Jamal Abdel Nabi Ajami, 55, Amin Muhammad Maher, 19, a student, Ahmed Bilal Shehata, 15, a student, Kyrlos Wajeeh Sobhi, a doctor, 29, John Ishaq Suleiman, 32, and Rehab Zayed, 42, a student. Youssef Mohamed Abdel Khaleq, 21, Omar Mahmoud Abdel Latif, 21, Mohamed Hisham Mohamed, 19, Asim Osama Mohamed, 20, Mohamed Ahmed Diab, 20, Hazem Abdel Rahim Abdel Tawab, 29, Harbi Saad Taudros, 71, and Abdullah Salah Tony, 21 Mustafa Ahmed Abdel-Al, 64, Youssef Qutb Hussein, 18, and Emad Tharwat Fathi, 47, and a girl of unknown name and identity was injured.
The security services in Minya Governorate had received a notification from the Rescue Operations Room, of a collision of a public transport bus carrying about 45 passengers, with a heavy transport vehicle that was parked on the side of the eastern desert road near the village of Al-Barsha, east of the Nile.
The Minya Ambulance Authority branch pushed 10 cars to transport the injured, and Major General Osama Al-Qadi, the governor of Minya, followed up on a mass transport bus accident from behind with a trailer transport vehicle on the eastern desert road in Mallawi Center, where the governor moved immediately in the early hours of Tuesday morning to inspect the site of the accident and follow up on all the details. First, to identify the primary causes of the accident and to identify the work of transporting the injured, as ambulances immediately moved to the site of the accident
The governor was accompanied by a number of leaders of the Security Directorate, Major General A.H. Ahmed Al-Says, President of Mallawi City, Dr. Muhammad Nadi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, and Dr. Sherif Medhat, Director of the Ambulance Authority branch.
The initial data of the accident indicated that the transport vehicle was parked on the side of the road to change the tire, and it was hit from behind by the bus coming from Sohag Governorate and heading to Cairo Governorate.