MOSCOW, May 1 (RIA Novosti) - At least eight people were killed and some 23 injured after a bus carrying tourists from Russia, Ukraine, Italy and Canada overturned and burst into flames in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Thursday, national media reported.
The nationalities of the dead have not yet been determined. However, an Egyptian police source told the media that, "Two Egyptian police, 14 Russians, two Canadians, an Italian, and three Ukrainians," had been injured in the accident.
He added that the bus had been carrying 37 tourists. All the injured have been taken to hospital. The exact extent of their injuries is not yet known.
Russian embassy officials in Egypt are currently attempting to establish if any Russians were among those killed in the accident.
The bus overturned at a sharp bend on a desert highway at Abu Zenima, about 40 miles (65 kms) southeast of the Suez Canal. It was travelling from the popular tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to the Egyptian capital, Cairo. The incident occured at 5.54 a.m. local time (02.54 GMT).
Such incidents are frequent on Egyptian roads due to a combination of speeding and poor road conditions. Some 8,000 people die annually each year in the country in road accidents.
