The FRA said the compensation is paid under the provisions of insurance law No. 155 for 2024, which has been approved by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi.

Farid urged the families of victims to apply for the ECIP to get the compensations, directing the ECIP officials to simplify procedures to provide the families of the dead and wounded people with all forms of support.

The ECIP said the body is keen to provide all needed information concerning compensation documents and measures, stressing that all needed support will be provided for those who were injured.

The ECIP pledged to swiftly pay compensations to the families of the deceased.

Menoufia, located in Egypt’s fertile Nile Delta, woke up to tragedy as 18 young women and one man were killed after a microbus collided with a truck on the Regional Ring Road on Friday.

Photos from the scene showed the microbus completely wrecked.

The deceased, along with two other injured laborers, were transported to nearby hospitals. Most, if not all, of the victims were aged between 14 and 23 years.

Investigating authorities have ordered the detention of the driver of the microbus that collided Friday with a truck.

The driver will undergo drug tests to determin whether he was driving under the influence of narcotics. 

According to media reports, the accident occurred at exactly 10:00 a.m., when a transport vehicle collided with a microbus that was transporting the girls to their work in a farm in the village of Moanesa, in the Ashmoun district of Menoufia Governorate, in Nile Delta.