At least 109 people were injured in Egypt on Sunday when a passenger train derailed, local authorities said.
A train with eight wagons derailed in Calgary, near Cairo. The cause of the accident is not yet known. There have been a number of tragic railway disasters in Egypt in recent years.
This week, 15 people were injured when a train derailed in the north of Egypt, but on March 26, two passenger trains collided in the south of Egypt, killing at least 19 people.
Egypt’s most tragic railway disaster occurred in 2002, when a passenger train caught fire. More than 360 people died in the accident.
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