CAIRO: Two trains collided Friday in southern Egypt on Friday, inflicting three passenger vehicles to flip over, killing 32 individuals and leaving 66 injured, well being authorities stated.
Dozens of ambulance autos had been rushed to the scene of the crash, which befell within the southern province of Sohag, stated a press release by Egypt’s heath ministry.
Native media displayed movies from the scene displaying flipped wagons with passengers trapped inside and surrounded by rubble.
Some victims appeared unconscious, whereas others could possibly be see bleeding.
Bystanders carried our bodies, laying them out on the bottom close to the positioning of the accident.
Egypt’s railway system has a historical past of badly maintained tools and poor administration.
Official figures present that 1,793 prepare accidents befell in 2017 throughout the nation.
In 2018, a passenger prepare derailed close to the southern metropolis of Aswan, injuring a minimum of six individuals and prompting authorities to fireplace the chief of the nation’s railways.
In the identical 12 months, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi stated the federal government lacks about 250 billion Egyptian kilos, or $14.1 billion, to overtake the run-down rail system.
El-Sissi spoke a day after a passenger prepare collided with a cargo prepare, killing a minimum of 12 individuals, together with a baby.
A 12 months earlier, two passenger trains collided simply exterior the Mediterranean port metropolis of Alexandria, killing 43 individuals.
In 2016, a minimum of 51 individuals had been killed when two commuter trains collided close to Cairo.
Egypt’s deadliest prepare crash befell in 2002, when over 300 individuals had been killed when fireplace erupted in dashing prepare travelling from Cairo to southern Egypt.
