The casualty toll of the train derailment on Tuesday night in
Qalyub, an Egyptian city about 23 km north of the capital Cairo,
has risen to four killed and 23 injured, the authorities said
Wednesday, Trend
reports citing Xinhua.
All the wounded had been transferred to three national
hospitals, 11 of whom were released after receiving necessary
treatment, according to the Egyptian health ministry.
The train went through the “closed semaphore” at the Qalyub
Train Station in Qalyubia Governorate and headed toward a blocked
railway before colliding with the protection at the end of the
railway, the Egyptian National Railways said in a statement on
Tuesday.
As a result, the locomotive and the first carriage were
derailed, the statement said, adding the Egyptian Transport
Ministry formed a committee to investigate the accident.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s Public Prosecutor also ordered an
investigation into the Qalyub train collision.
Egypt’s railway system has long been troubled by poorly
maintained equipment and poor administration, which frequently
results in train derailments and crashes. At least 32 people were
killed in a train collision in 2021 in Tahta, a city in southern
Egypt. Later that year, a train derailed in Qalyubia, killing
11.
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