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At least three died, including two children, and at least 40 were injured when two passenger trains collided in the Nile Delta area in northeastern Egypt on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collision occurred in the city of Zagazig in Egypt’s Al Sharkia province and crumpled one passenger car, Egypt Today<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First responders assisted injured passengers through the windows of damaged train cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rescue operations are ongoing with those injured being taken to nearby Al-Ahrar and Zagazig hospitals, Egypt’s Ministry of Health reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One train was destined for Ismailia from Zigazag while the other was destined for Zigazag from Mansoura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirty ambulances and several medical teams responded to the accident scene while crowds of people gathered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Egypt’s rail system is in a state of decay and has recorded<\/a> at least one deadly accident every year over the past 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Egypt reported 2,044 train accidents in 2018 and 1,793 in 2019, Egypt’s Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A train collision in 2021 killed at least 32 and injured 165. Another 25 people died while dozens were injured during a 2019 accident in which a train collided with a platform that caused a fuel tank to explode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Egypt is in the process of\u00a0improving<\/a>\u00a0its rail network, which serves about 270 million passengers annually and about 1.4 million daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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