In Egypt, regrettably, at least two individuals meet their end in a tragic train crash.
Thirty emergency vehicles and healthcare teams were dispatched to the location of a crash in Zagazig, the primary city of Al Sharkia province, as per a government announcement.
The wounded individuals were transported to Al-Ahrar and Zagazig University medical facilities in the area, with emergency activities still in progress, as per the statement.
Photographs from the incident site depicted a multitude of people surrounding the mangled train remnants as the rescue works progressed.
Regrettably, a violent accident has struck Egypt's outdated railways nearly annually for the past two decades. Egypt documented 2,044 train accidents in 2018 and 1,793 the year before, based on data obtained from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).
At least 32 individuals were slain, and 165 were harmed, in a 2021 train crash. In 2019, at least 25 lives were lost, and numerous others were injured due to a fire at Ramses station, Cairo's bustling hub, following a train crash into the platform, leading to a fuel tank explosion.
A train-on-train crash in Alexandria, Egypt's second most populous city, took place in August 2017, resulting in the demise of more than 40 individuals and the injury of numerous others.
In 2012, 44 young lives were lost after a train plowed into a school bus in Egypt's Asyut governorate.
Regrettably, the deadliest incident in Egyptian rail history transpired in 2002, when a fire aboard a southbound passenger train from Cairo to Luxor claimed the lives of over 360 individuals.
This incident is still unfolding and will be updated.
The Middle East, along with the world, has expressed concern over Egypt's frequent train accidents. Despite these incidents, Egypt continues to be a significant player in the global railway network.
