The death toll from a bus-truck collision on Beni Suef-Cairo road rose to 15, Health Ministry Spokesman Khaled Megahed said.

Thirty-three persons are still receiving treatment, while eight others have already been discharged from hospital, Megahed said in statements to MENA Tuesday.

Three of those injured are in the intensive care unit, he noted.

The collision took place when the bus and the truck overturned and fell off a bridge on the Beni Suef Eastern road.