Egypt: Second deadly train crash in weeks

Egypt: Second deadly train crash in weeks
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Local media reported that a locomotive collided with the rear of a sleeper train en route from Aswan to Cairo, causing two train carriages to fall into the Ibrahimiya Canal in Upper Egypt, killing one person and injuring at least 21 people. It is the second train crash in Egypt in recent weeks. In September, two passenger trains collided in a Nile Delta city, killing at least three people.

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