Egypt train crash kills 37, injures more than 120 outside coastal city of Alexandria

Two passenger trains have collided in Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria, killing 37 people and injuring 123, a health ministry spokesman said.

Key points:

• A train traveling to Alexandria from Cairo crashed into the back of another train, the Egyptian Railways Authority said
• Public prosecutor Nabil Sadek ordered an urgent investigation into the crash
• A health ministry spokesman said 75 ambulances had been deployed at the crash scene

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered authorities to establish who was responsible for the crash, which left bodies strewn on the ground around wrecked carriages.

A statement by the Egyptian Railways Authority said a train traveling to Alexandria from Cairo, Egypt’s capital, crashed into the back of another train, which was waiting at a small station in the district of Khorshid, just east of Alexandria.

The stationary train had just arrived from Port Said, a Mediterranean city on the northern tip of the Suez Canal, when it was hit, according to the statement.

State newspaper al-Ahram said earlier that 36 bodies had been taken to hospital morgues in Alexandria province.

As rescue teams pulled dead and injured from the damaged rail wagons, public prosecutor Nabil Sadek ordered an urgent investigation.

Source: Egypt train crash kills 37, injures more than 120 outside coastal city of Alexandria – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)