TEHRAN, Nov. 12 (MNA) – Dozens of people were killed and injured when a bus fell into a canal in northern Egypt on Saturday, the Health Ministry said.

The bus was carrying some 35 people when it derailed on a highway and fell into Mansuriya canal in Aga town, in the northern governorate of Daqahlia, according to security sources, Reuters reported.

Nineteen people were killed and six others were injured during the incident.

No further details have been published so far.

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