In Egypt, 15 people mostly students were killed when floodwaters caused by torrential rains swept a bus packed with 77 schoolgirls and their teachers off a highway in the country's south. Reports quoting police say, rescue workers and local residents struggled to save those on board the bus, which overturned late on Wednesday in a deep trench created by strong flood currents along the highway leading to the city of Minya, 200km south of the capital Cairo. The dead included an ambulance driver who had rescued 20 of those on board the bus before the floods swept him away and he also drowned. The schoolgirls and their teachers had been on a trip to Minya and were returning home to the town of Assiut when the accident took place.