Train collision in southern Egypt kills 32, injures dozens
Egypt's railroad authority said the collision occurred after the emergency brakes were activated on one of the trains.
At least 32 people are dead and more than 90 others injured after a passenger train collided with another train in southern Egypt, the country’s Ministry of Health said on Friday.
Dozens of ambulances were dispatched to transfer the scores of injured to four area hospitals, the ministry said in a statement. Videos posted to social media showed rescue teams and bystanders digging through the wreckage of the flipped rail cars, looking for trapped passengers.
According to the Egyptian National Railways Authority, the train collision in Sohag, a city about about 260 miles south of Cairo on the Nile, was caused by “unknown individuals” using the emergency brakes. The statement continued that a second train traveling in the same direction crashed into the first train after it suddenly stopped.
A security source told Reuters that “the trains collided while going at not very high speeds, which led to the destruction of two carriages and a third to overturn.”
