CAIRO — A passenger train collided with a cargo train in Egypt on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people, including a child, in the latest deadly accident involving the country’s underfunded and mismanaged railways. According to latest figures by the state’s statistics agency, 1,249 train accidents took place last year, the highest since 2009 when the number reached 1,577. At least 12 people died and another 20 were injured on Wednesday when a Egyptian passenger train collided with a freight train in the village of Kom Hamada in the northern province of Beheira, a Health Ministry spokesman said. In August, two passenger trains collided just outside Egypt’s Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing 43 people, the country’s deadliest rail accident in more than a decade. While the cause of the crash remains unclear, it comes months after 41 people died in a train collision near the coastal city of Alexandria last August.
A collision between a passenger and a cargo train in Beheira, Egypt kills 15 people and injures 40 more.