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Train derailment ‘kills 19’ in Cairo

January 15 2013 at 12:47pm

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People stand around the wreckage of a military train crash in the Giza neighbourhood of Badrashin, about 40km west of Cairo.

Cairo - A military train carrying young recruits to an army camp derailed in a Cairo suburb on Tuesday, killing 19 people and injuring 107, Egypt's health ministry spokesman said.

The train was travelling from Upper Egypt to Cairo when it derailed in the Giza neighbourhood of Badrashin, a security source said, adding that the train was a military vehicle carrying conscripted youth on their way to an army camp.

The injured passengers were taken to hospitals, Ahmed Omar, the health ministry spokesman, told the state news agency MENA.

There was no further information available about the identities of the 17 dead except the names of the hospitals to which their corpses were sent, published on MENA.

“The Egyptian Ambulance Authority has sent 66 ambulance cars to the site of the accident to move the bodies of the injured and the corpses of the victims to hospitals,” Omar told MENA.

Egypt's roads and railways have a poor safety record, and Egyptians have long complained that successive governments have failed to enforce even basic safeguards, leading to a string of deadly crashes.

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People inspect at the wreckage of a train in the Giza in Badrashin, about 40km west of Cairo, on January 15, 2013, at least 19 people where killed and injured 105.

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In November, at least 50 people, mostly children, were killed when a train slammed into a school bus at a rail crossing south of Cairo, further inflaming public anger at Egypt's shoddy transport network.

Reuters


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