Two people have died after a coach full of tourists — including foreign nationals — careered into a truck near a beach resort in Egypt .

Some 36 other people have been injured in the smash along the Ras Gharib-Hurghada road north of the Red Sea near Hurghada in the African nation. It is thought 24 people on the coach are foreign, although the nationalities — including of the deceased — have not been disclosed by authorities at this stage.

Several ambulances rushed to the scene early this morning and have taken those injured to hospitals in and around Hurghada, which is loved by tourists for its long stretch of sandy beach lined with plush hotels.

Authorities told the press they received reports a coach belonging to a Red Sea tourism company, travelling north from Hurghada, and a hea

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