At least three people were killed and 49 injured in a train collision in Egypt, the country’s Health Ministry said on Saturday (14).
Thirty ambulances and backup medical teams were sent to the scene of the collision in the city of Zagazig, capital of Al Sharkia province, the ministry said in a statement.
The injured were transferred to Al-Ahrar and Zagazig university hospitals in the city, and “rescue operations are still ongoing,” the ministry added.
The ministry reported that at least five of the injured were in “unstable” condition.
Images from the scene showed crowds of people gathered around the twisted wreckage of the trains as rescue operations took place.
Egypt’s aging railway system has seen a deadly accident almost every year for the past 20 years. Egypt recorded 2,044 train accidents in 2018 and 1,793 the year before, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).
In 2021, at least 32 people died and 165 were injured when two trains collided.
In 2019, at least 25 people died and dozens were injured in a fire at Ramses station in central Cairo, the country’s busiest, after a train crashed into the platform, causing a fuel tank to explode.
A collision between two trains in Alexandria, Egypt’s second-largest city, in August 2017 left more than 40 people dead and many injured.
In 2012, 44 children died after a train collided with a school bus in Egypt’s Asyut province.
But the deadliest accident in Egyptian railway history occurred in 2002, when a fire on a passenger train travelling south from Cairo to Luxor killed more than 360 people.
This content was originally published in At least three people die in train collision in Egypt on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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