Northern Egypt prepare derailment kills 2, injures 16

A passenger prepare derailed Tuesday north of Cairo, killing a minimum of two individuals and injuring 16 others, Egyptian authorities stated. It was the newest in a sequence of rail accidents within the nation lately.

The derailing occurred because the prepare was touring by means of a station within the metropolis of Qalyub on its technique to the town of Menouf within the Nile Delta, state prosecutors stated in a press release.

At least 20 ambulances have been dispatched to the scene and the injured have been transferred to close by hospitals, well being authorities stated.

Videos of the aftermath of the collision posted on Facebook confirmed crowds of individuals and emergency providers gathering across the rail automobiles, which remained upright after the derailing. In different footage, passengers have been seen being pulled from the wreckage by means of rail-car home windows.

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A northern Egypt prepare derailment killed two individuals and injured 16 others because of driver error.  (Fox News)

In a press release issued later, Egypt’s railway authority stated the derailment was brought on by driver error.

Train derailments and crashes are frequent in Egypt, the place the railway system has a historical past of badly maintained gear and mismanagement. In current years, the federal government has initiated quite a few renovation and modernization initiatives to enhance its railways.

In 2018, President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi stated some 250 billion Egyptian kilos, or $8.13 billion, could be wanted to correctly overhaul the North African nation’s uncared for rail community.

In 2021, two trains collided within the southern Egyptian metropolis of Tahta, killing 32 individuals. Later that 12 months, a prepare derailed in Qalyubia province killing 11 individuals.

Egypt’s deadliest prepare crash was in 2002, when greater than 300 individuals have been killed after a hearth broke out in an in a single day prepare journeying from Cairo to southern Egypt.