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10 dead, 15 wounded in Egypt's train crash

Xinhua | Updated: 2018-02-28 20:15

CAIRO -- At least 10 people were killed and 15 others wounded on Wednesday in a crash between two trains in Beheira province northern the capital Cairo, the Egyptian Health Ministry said in a statement.

The Health Ministry's spokesman said that more than 30 ambulances have rushed to the crash scene to move the wounded people to nearby hospitals.

Meanwhile, Beheira security chief Alaa El-Din Abdel-Fattah told official MENA news agency that "the accident took place as two cabins derailed from a passenger train and hit a cargo train in Kom Hamada district of Beheira."

 

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