At least two dead and 16 injured when a train derailed in Egypt

March 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least two people have died and 16 have been injured this Tuesday after a train derailed and crashed into a train station in the governorate of Caliubia, located in the Nile delta, in northern Egypt.

The Egyptian Ministry of Health, which has reported the death toll, has indicated that the state of health of the injured has stabilized after receiving medical treatment at the hospital.

The prosecutor, Hamada El Sawy, has ordered the formation of an investigation team to investigate the incident, as reported by the Al Qahera News portal.

Egypt, and specifically the Nile Delta, has accumulated a long history of train accidents, some of them serious and generally attributed to poor maintenance of equipment and infrastructure.