Overview
- A coach operated by a Red Sea tourism company collided head-on with a heavy truck on the Ras Gharib–Hurghada road before dawn on Tuesday.
- Authorities confirmed the coach driver and a passenger were killed, and later reports raised the number of injured to 39.
- The Russian consulate said one of the dead was a Russian national, with local reports listing 27 Russians, seven Finns and two Lithuanians among the injured, plus two Egyptian drivers and a tour guide.
- Multiple ambulances responded and transported the wounded to Ras Gharib Hospital and to facilities in the Hurghada area.
- Prosecutors have opened an investigation, and preliminary accounts indicate the coach was traveling in a convoy from Hurghada toward Cairo to visit archaeological and tourist sites.