Local media quoted eyewitnesses as saying that the accident occurred as a result of the driver’s excessive speed, which led to the steering wheel becoming misaligned in his hand while turning on the road.
Media outlets also quoted sources from BGalala University She said that the bus does not belong to the university, but belongs to an external company.
The sources added that the university administration immediately went to the site of the accident to provide medical care, transport the injured, and provide blood bags for needy cases.
For its part, Al-Ahram newspaper quoted the governor of Suez as saying, “From initial observations, it appears that the tire of the Galala University bus hit the island in the middle of the road, which led to the bus overturning,” adding, “God knows, was it the speed or the tire wear?! The investigations will still clarify.”
And it was Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population It was announced, on Monday evening, that the death toll from a bus accident carrying Galala University students had risen.
The Ministry said, in a statement it described as “urgent”, that the number of victims of the bus overturn accident on the Galala-Ain-Sokhna Road, towards Zafarana-Suez, rose to 12 deaths and 33 injured.
The Ministry added that it sent 28 ambulances to the scene of the accident that occurred on the Al-Jalala Highway, which connects… Cairo In coastal cities Red Sea Including Ain Sokhna.
The Ministry explained that “the injured were transferred to the Suez Medical Complex, affiliated with the Health Care Authority in the Suez Governorate, while their receipt of the necessary medical care is being monitored, through the presence of Mohamed Al-Tayeb, Deputy Minister of Health and Population, who arrived at the Medical Complex, commissioned by Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Vice President of… The Council of Ministers and the Minister of Health and Population.
The statement stated that Khaled Abdel Ghaffar is fully coordinating with “Ayman Ashour, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and Mohamed El-Shenawy, President of the University, in the procedures for transporting the deceased students and providing medical care to the injured.”
The Suez Governorate Ambulance Facility had received a report that a bus carrying students had overturned Galala Universitymost of them from the Faculty of Medicine, while returning home after the end of the school day.
Immediately, the director of the Suez Governorate Ambulance Facility sent 30 ambulances to the site of the accident to transport the deceased and injured to the Suez Medical Complex.
The Director of the Health Care Authority, BSuez GovernorateLifting the state of emergency and calling in all medical teams to treat the injured.
