Train collision leaves two children dead and 29 passengers injured

Two rider trains collided successful Egypt’s Nile Delta connected Saturday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 3 radical – 2 of them children.

The country’s railway authorization said the clang happened successful the metropolis of Zagazig, the superior of Sharqiya province.

Egypt’s health ministry said the collision injured astatine slightest 40 different people.

Train derailments and crashes are communal successful Egypt, wherever an aging railway strategy has besides been plagued by mismanagement.

In caller years, the authorities announced initiatives to amended its railways.

In 2018, President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said immoderate 250 cardinal Egyptian pounds (£6.2 billion) would beryllium needed to decently overhaul the North African country’s neglected obstruction network.

Video from the tract of the clang showed a bid car crumpled by the impact, surrounded by crowds.

Men tried to assistance the injured done the windows of a rider car.

Last month, a bid crashed into a motortruck crossing the bid tracks successful the Mediterranean state of Alexandria, sidesplitting 2 people.

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