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Home arrow Egypt News arrow UPDATE-Egypt train crash kills 18
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Written by Egypt News   
Sunday, 25 October 2009
UPDATE-Egypt train crash kills 18 The Egyptian Health Ministry announced Sunday that the death toll from Egypt's train crash south of Cairo has reached 18, adding that a day after the accident involving two passenger trains.

Egypt's ministry said that 39 people were injured in the accident on Saturday evening but 12 of them had already been discharged from hospital, according to official Middle East News Agency (MENA).

A first class train, filled with passengers, rammed into a nearly empty stationary train on the same track, security sources said.

MENA, citing witnesses, said the first train had stopped after it struck the cow.

The moving train was headed south from Cairo toward Assiut and Aswan, a major tourist attraction and the site of pharaonic ruins, security sources said. No foreigners were reported among the casualties.

An Egyptian railway authority official said a technical committee had been set up to investigate the cause of the crash.

A series of road and rail accidents in Egypt in recent years has triggered an outcry over the government's handling of transport safety.

Saturday's accident took place in al-Ayyat, which in 2002 was the scene of Egypt's worst rail disaster when fire ripped through seven carriages of an overcrowded passenger train, killing at least 360 people.

A train crash in northern Egypt killed 44 people in 2008, two years after a crash that killed 58 people.

 

 

 

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