Some 32 killed, 63 injured in Egypt car crash - state media

(190219) -- CAIRO, Feb. 19, 2019 -- An ambulance is seen near the site of an explosion in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 19, 2019. A terrorist and two Egyptian policemen were killed Monday in a bomb explosion in the old quarter of the Egyptian capital Cairo, the interior ministry said. ) EGYPT-CAIRO-BOMB BLAST AhmedxGomaa PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN (Amadeja Plankl, Imago)

Thirty-two people were killed and 63 injured on Saturday in a multiple-vehicle collision about 132 kilometres (82 miles) north of Egypt's capital Cairo, the health ministry said.

The collision took place in the morning and involved a bus and a number of vehicles bound for Cairo on the main desert road in the Beheira governorate.

The state-run Al-Ahram newspaper quoted police sources as saying an oil leak from one vehicle caused the collision with some vehicles catching fire.

(Reporting by Ahmed Elimam and Omar Abdel-Razek; editing by Jason Neely)

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