Six women from Egypt died on Tuesday when a car carrying around 24 people fell off a ferry into the Nile River near Cairo.
The crash in Monshat el-Kanater town in Giza province hurt nine passengers, the Health Ministry announced. Giza is one of three areas that make up the larger city of Cairo.
The government said six people with injuries were helped at the scene and three were taken to hospitals. It didn’t explain their injuries.
Giza’s governor, Ahmed Rashed, said that they found the microbus in the Nile and they are still trying to rescue people as of Tuesday afternoon.
It wasn’t clear why the accident happened right away.
According to the Akhbar newspaper, around 24 people, mostly women, were in the car going to work when the accident happened.
Ferry, train, and car crashes happen a lot in Egypt because things aren’t taken care of well and there aren’t many rules. In February, a boat with workers sank in the Nile in Giza, and at least 10 out of the 15 people on it died.
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Car rolls off ferry and into Nile River killing at least six Egyptian women
