16 people killed in a road accident in Egypt

At least 16 people, including three children, were killed and seven others injured when three vehicles collided in Egypt's southern Sohag province.
The accident took place when two trucks and a microbus collided at a road between Sohag and the Red Sea governorate late yesterday.
The injured were referred to five different hospitals, The Cairo Post reported.
An investigation into the crash has been opened and three drivers have been questioned so far, it said.
Road accidents, which official statistics say claim 18 lives a day, are common in Egypt due to ill-maintained roads as well as disregard for traffic laws.

About 21,000 people are killed and 150,000 injured annually in Egypt in road accidents, Egyptian Minister of Health Adel al-Adawy had said last month.
The WHO ranks Egypt as the world's tenth worst country in road accidents.