18 killed including children in Egypt workers’ pick-up crash
The workers, mostly from two villages in the Nile delta governorate of Sharqiya, were “on their way to work on an Ismailia farm,” says security official
August 11, 2026 14:13
Ismailia, EGYPT: At least 18 people, many of them children aged 13 to 14, were killed on Tuesday in northern Egypt when two pick-up trucks carrying agricultural day laborers crashed, a local medical source told AFP.
Egypt’s health ministry had earlier said there were 47 casualties including some 30 injured in the crash in the Dawawis area of Ismailia governorate.
