At least 21 killed & 6 injured after minibus veers off road and plunges into water in Egypt, with children among victims

AT least 21 people have been killed and another six injured after a minibus veered off the road and plunged into the Nile. Dr Sherif Makeen, a health ministry official, said three children were among the dead. GettyThree children were among those killed in the bus accident in Egypt’s Dakahlia province[/caption] GettyAt least 21 people have lost their lives in the crash[/caption] AFPPolice speculated the driver may have lost control of the vehicle.[/caption] In a statement, the ministry said the accident happened in Dakahlia province, around 62 miles northeast of the capital of Cairo. Other injured passengers were transported to a local hospital. The head of police investigations in the province, Brig Mohamed Abdel Hadi, said the driver may have lost control of the vehicle’s steering wheel. Deadly traffic accidents claim thousands of lives every year in Egypt, which has a poor transportation safety record. Crashes and collisions are mostly caused by speeding, bad roads or poor enforcement of traffic laws. In July, a passenger bus slammed into a parked trailer truck on a highway in the southern province of Minya, killing 23 people and injuring 30. In October, a truck slammed into a minibus in Dakahlia, killing at least 10 people, authorities said. Most read in News TRAPPED IN HELL Evil woman boasted about boozy 'girls night' after letting 7 kids starve VLAD'S REVENGE Fears Russia 'deliberately destroyed' Kherson dam to unleash deadly flood JEREMY CLARKSON If Putin fired a nuke I'd stand in a field & embrace the light - here's why EYEFUL TOWER We were chased out of France after making porn film in cab under Eiffel Tower AGONISING END Sex offender, 63, bleeds to death after suffering gruesome injuries in estate TOSSED SALAD Dominic Raab 'hurled tomatoes from Pret salad across room in fit of rage'