Two trains crashed in Southern Egypt on Friday

Two trains crashed in Southern Egypt on Friday

By Onlykhabar News Media Sat 27 March, 2021 ( about 5 years ago ) 🎤458 Viewersinternational

Two trains crashed Friday in southern Egypt, killing at least 32 people and injuring 165.

Egypt's Railway Authorities said, although Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly later added that no cause has been determined. Someone apparently activated the emergency brakes on the passenger train, and it was rear-ended by another train, causing two cars to derail and flip on their side.  The passenger train was headed to the Mediterranean port of Alexandria, north of Cairo, rail officials said.

Bystanders removed the dead and laid them on the ground nearby. Video showed twisted piles of metal with passengers covered with dust trapped inside – some bleeding and others unconscious.  A female passenger appeared to be upside down, squeezed under the seats, and was crying, "Get me out, boy!" One passenger was heard shouting on the video, "Help us! People are dying!"

More than 100 ambulances were sent to the scene in the province of Sohag, about 440 kilometers (270 miles) south of Cairo, Health Minister Hala Zayed said, and the injured were taken to four hospitals. Chief Prosecutor Hamada el-Sawy was on the scene to investigate the crash, he said. The government will pay the equivalent of $6,400 in compensation to each family that had a relative killed, Madbouly said, while the injured will get between $1,280 to $2,560, depending on how badly they were hurt. 

"The pain that tears our hearts today cannot but make us more determined to end this type of disasters," he wrote on his Facebook page. In 2018, a passenger train derailed near the southern city of Aswan, injuring at least six people and prompting authorities to fire the chief of the country's railways.  A year earlier, two passenger trains collided just outside Alexandria, killing 43. In 2016, at least 51 people were killed when two commuter trains collided near Cairo. 

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