Seventy-two ambulances have been despatched to the scene and reinforcement scientific groups have been despatched to the incident within the Tahta district of the Higher Egypt governorate of Sohag from the capital Cairo, the Well being Ministry mentioned.
Well being Minister Hala Zayed mentioned in a information convention that two planes have been dispatched from Cairo with 52 scientific groups from quite a lot of specialties on board to regard the injured.
Photographs from the scene confirmed crowds of other people collected across the twisted wreckage of the trains.
The collision took place after an unidentified individual pulled an emergency brake, Egypt’s railway authority mentioned in a observation.
The authority mentioned that at 11:42 a.m. native time (5:42 a.m. ET) a teach heading from Aswan to Cairo hit the rear of a teach heading from Luxor to Alexandria, which used to be caught at the railway line after an emergency brake used to be activated.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi mentioned that “whoever has brought about the Sohag teach coincidence, will obtain the deterrent penalty.”
Top Minister Mostafa Madbouly added that any “error or negligence is probably not tolerated, and the wrongdoer can be held in command of the coincidence.”
Egyptian Top Minister Mostafa Madbouly mentioned that the rustic’s railway amenities have “witnessed a long time of overlook, loss of construction and upkeep, which is leaving it in a state that resulted in threat.”
“Keep watch over techniques function manually, teach automobiles have run outdated,” he advised Egyptian TV, whilst examining the website online.
Egypt’s getting older railway machine has witnessed a perilous coincidence nearly once a year for the previous two decades. In 2018, Egypt recorded 2,044 teach injuries and in 2017, 1,793 injuries have been recorded in step with information revealed via the professional statistics company Central Company for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).
In 2012, 44 youngsters died after a teach crashed into a college bus in Egypt’s Asyut governante.
CNN’s Mostafa Salem reported from Abu Dhabi, and Magdy Samaan and Lina Wardani from Cairo.
