(The Sun) – At least 32 people are dead and 108 injured after two passenger trains collided in central Egypt today. Shocking images show people trapped inside flipped carriages surrounded by twisted metal and debris after one train rammed into the rear of another.
The smash destroyed two carriages and caused a third to flip on its side, officials said. Dozens of ambulances were transporting people to the hospital from the crash site near the Nile-side town of Tahta, 230 miles south of Cairo.
Egypt’s rail authority said “unknown individuals” had triggered the emergency brakes on a train heading north to Alexandria. It came to a sudden stop and was hit from behind by a second train traveling in the same direction.
“The trains collided while going at not very high speeds, which led to the destruction of two carriages and a third to overturn,” a security source told Reuters. Pictures published on local media badly damaged carriages off the rails above a channel of water.
Unconscious and bleeding victims could be seen in the wreckage as bystanders carried bodies and laid them out on the ground. The injured were taken to four hospitals, and a plane carrying medical supplies and specialist doctors was sent from Cairo. READ MORE
