Cairo: Six people from one family died on Friday after their minibus overturned on a road south of the Egyptian capital, security sources said.
Eleven other passengers were injured in the mishap in Giza, the twin city of Cairo.
The victims were on their way to the Upper Egyptian province of Assiut to spend the Muslim Eid Al Adha holiday with their families.
The dead included parents, their three children and a cousin, the sources added.
The driver of the microbus lost control of the wheel after one of its tyres burst, apparently due to high speed, witnesses told local media.
The accident comes three days after 14 people and more than 40 were killed in a collision between a passenger bus and a pick-up truck in the province of Beni Sueif, also south of Cairo.
Egypt has one of the world’s top road accident records mainly due to reckless driving, ill-kept vehicles and poor routes.
The government has recently toughened traffic penalties in an attempt to curb road tragedies.
Over the past three years, a large network of new roads have been built across Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country with a population of 95 million.
