Thirteen people were injured when two passenger trains collided on Thursday in the Egyptian capital, the health ministry said, triggering a suspension in nationwide rail services.
It said the casualties were ferried to hospitals, while the rail authorities said that services were suspended across Egypt.In the accident involving passengers from Upper Egypt, one train crashed into the other which was stationary, the rail services said.In February 2019, a hurtling locomotive crashed, derailed and caught fire at Cairo’s main train station, killing more than 20 people.
Officials often blame the rail network’s poor maintenance on decades of negligence and a lack of funds. The deadliest accident on Egypt’s railways was in 2002 when 373 people died in a fire that ripped through a crowded train south of the capital.
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