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Associated Press

Egyptian authorities say a passenger train accident on Sunday north of Cairo has killed at least 11 people.
Railway authorities say that at least four train wagons ran off the railway at the city of Banha in Qalyubia province.
Egypt’s health ministry said in a statement that at least 98 others were injured.
Videos on social media showed wagons overturned and passengers escaping to safety along the railway.
The train was travelling to the Nile Delta city of Mansoura from the Egyptian capital.
It was the latest of several rail accidents to hit the country in recent years.
The Health Ministry said in a statement that at least 98 people were injured. Around 60 ambulances were sent to the scene and the injured were taken to nearby hospitals, the ministry added.
Salvage teams could be seen searching for survivors and removing the derailed wagons. It was not immediately clear what caused the train to derail. Prosecutors said they were investigating the causes of the crash.
Last week, at least 15 people were injured when train carriages derailed in the Nile Delta province of Sharqia.
Sunday’s train accident came three weeks after two passenger trains collided in the province of Sohag, killing at least 18 people and injuring 200 others, including children.
Prosecutors said they found that gross negligence by railway employees was behind the deadly March 25 crash, which caused public outcry across the country.
Prosecutors in Egypt find gross negligence by railway employees was behind fatal train crash
Train crashes and mishaps are common in Egypt, where the railway system has a history of badly maintained equipment and mismanagement. The government says it has launched a broad renovation and modernisation initiative. President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said in March 2018 that the government needs about US$14.1 billion to overhaul the run-down rail system.
Hundreds of train accidents are reported every year. In February 2019 an unstaffed locomotive slammed into a barrier inside Cairo’s main Ramses railway station, causing a huge explosion and a fire that killed at least 25 people. That crash prompted the then-transport minister to resign.
In August 2017, two passenger trains collided just outside the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing 43 people. In 2016, at least 51 people were killed when two commuter trains collided near Cairo.
Egypt’s deadliest train crash was in 2002, when more than 300 people were killed after a fire broke out in an overnight train travelling from Cairo to southern Egypt.


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Railway authorities say that at least four train wagons ran off the railway at the city of Banha in Qalyubia province
The train was travelling to the Nile Delta city of Mansoura from the Egyptian capital



Egypt’s Health Ministry said that at least 98 people were injured in the train crash north of Cairo, the latest of several rail accidents to hit the country in recent years.
