People collect on the web site the place prepare carriages derailed in Qalioubia province, Egypt. (Reuters)
The safety supply stated the motive force and different rail officers had been detained for questioning.
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A prepare accident north of Cairo on Sunday left 97 individuals injured, Egypt’s well being ministry stated, in the most recent rail calamity to hit the North African nation. The ministry stated “97 citizens were injured in a train accident in Toukh”, a small farming city in the fertile Nile Delta about 40 kilometres (25 miles) outdoors the capital. No deaths have been reported.
A safety supply informed AFP eight carriages got here off the rails because the prepare headed north in direction of town of Mansoura. Over 55 ambulances have been dispatched to deal with the injured, the ministry stated, and investigators have been despatched to evaluate the accident’s trigger.
The safety supply stated the motive force and different rail officers had been detained for questioning. Egyptian rail disasters are typically attributed to poor infrastructure and upkeep.
At least 20 individuals died and 199 have been injured final month in a prepare crash in the nation’s south, based on the most recent official toll, which authorities have revised a number of occasions.
The prosecution alleged final week that the motive force of 1 prepare and his assistant had each left the motive force’s cabin when it crashed into one other prepare.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has vowed to carry to account these liable for the most recent of a number of lethal prepare accidents in current years.
The African Development Bank introduced earlier this month a $170 million mortgage to enhance security on Egypt’s rail community.
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