ALBAWABA - Egyptian security and medical sources reported that 19 people were killed and three others injured on Friday in a collision between a heavy truck and a microbus on the regional road near Ashmoun Center in Menoufia Governorate in the Nile Delta.
According to Egyptian media, a trailer truck collided with a microbus that was transporting female day laborers from their homes in the village of Kafr El-Sanabseh to their workplaces in the Nile Delta, 100 kilometers north of Cairo.
The funerals of the 18 girls took place en masse in a solemn scene that sparked widespread sympathy and grief on social media, while security forces arrested the truck driver responsible for the accident.
The accident resulted in the deaths of 18 girls and the bus driver.
According to a list of the victims' names and ages published by official media, the workers' ages ranged from 14 to 22. Media outlets described the girls as "martyrs of their livelihood."
