Egypt

Tourism: Three Nile cruisers collide

Earth Times

I suppose that given the large number of cruise boats on the Nile it was only a matter of time before a couple of them bumped into each other:

One cruiser, while on a journey between the southern cities of Aswan and Luxor, collided with a docked cruiser in the town of Esna in the province of Qena, 480 kilometres south of Cairo.

The collision happened when the docked cruiser started to move. A third cruiser was also hit in the collision. All three boats suffered damage.

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