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Eight American tourists were killed and 23 injured when their bus collided with a truck near the southern Egyptian city of Aswan.As many as twenty-one Americans and two Egyptian tour operators were injured in the accident, which occurred around dawn on a road from the southern Egyptian city of Aswan to the historic Abu Simbel temple. The Egyptian military transported a dozen of the injured to a hospital in Cairo for treatment, the American embassy said in a statement. Passengers said their tour left Aswan at about 5:00 am, driving in pitch darkness on a narrow desert road toward Abu Simbel when the bus hit the truck. About 8,000 people die from traffic accidents each year in Egypt, where two-way desert roads frequently have only one lane, street lamps are rare and traffic laws are often ignored.
