On Friday in the Egyptian city of Alexandria two trains collided. The result of the crash killed 36 people, hundreds more were injured. About this in his statement said the Minister of health of Egypt.
The tragedy occurred at 14:15 local time near the suburban station Horse.According to local media, one of the trains was traveling from Cairo and the other from the city of Port said. The railway administration of Egypt reports that the derailed locomotive of one train and a few cars the other.
The most probable cause of the collision source in the security service called the false signal given by the employee of the railroad.
State newspaper al-Ahram said that the bodies of the 36 victims were delivered to hospital morgues in Alexandria. The public Prosecutor Nabil Sadek was ordered to begin an immediate investigation.
The footage from the event seen dozens of people gathered around the mangled cars and bodies scattered on the ground.
«The train on which I was driving was going very fast,» says the passenger, Momen Youssef. «I fell on the floor. When we got out and saw that the four cars overturned and lying on the ground a lot of people.»
Collision of trains in Egypt with a large number of victims — not a rare phenomenon.
In 2012, 50 people — mostly children — were killed when a train crashed into a school bus South of Cairo. The incident later sparked a complaint to the authorities and outdated transport system.
