A collision between a train and two vehicles at a railway crossing has killed two dozen people and wounded many more in Egypt.
Officials said the incident took place near Giza District of the capital, Cairo, during the early hours of Monday, when the train crashed into a truck and a minibus carrying guests home from a wedding.

The state news agency MENA quoted Hussein Zakariya, the head of Egypt’s railway authority, as saying that the minibus and truck stormed into the crossing and caused the deadly incident.

“The crossing was closed with chains, there were warning lights,” he said.

Roads and railways in Egypt have a poor safety record and locals have long complained about the lack of measures to enforce basic safeguards to prevent deadly crashes.

In January, a train transporting conscripts derailed and left 17 people dead.

The country’s transport network also came under attack last year when nearly 50 people, mostly children, were killed when a train rammed into a school bus south of Cairo.

The worst train tragedy in Egypt happened in 2002, when a fire ripped through several carriages of an overcrowded passenger train, killing at least 360 people.

By Press TV

 

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