Train crash in Egypt: at least 97 injured in derailment

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More than 50 ambulances were sent by the Ministry of Health to rescue the injured from the train accident.

The Egyptian railway authority said it was still investigating the cause of the train accident that was heading from Cairo to Mansoura on Sunday.

“During the passage of train No. 949/3209 from Cairo to Mansoura at 13:54, 4 wagons derailed near Sandanhour station (near Toukh),” the Egyptian railway authority said in a statement.

People are inspecting the damaged wagons of a passenger train that derailed near Toukh.

Most of the injuries were mild and moderate, with only a few critical cases, health ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed told a local television station.

The video posted on social media showed victims and injured scattered on the railway line, next to the overturned wagons and the sounds of danger. Train movement stopped in the Eastern Delta.

This is the third major train accident that has occurred in Egypt in less than a month. At least 32 people were killed and 165 injured last month after two trains collided in the Tahta district of Upper Egypt’s Sohag government.

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