Health Ministry - Train Carrying Army Recruits Derails In Egypt - 19 Killed Reuters

CAIRO Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:11pm GMT

CAIRO (Reuters) - A navy coach hauling small recruits that will a great affiliate marketer get away derailed from a Cairo suburb about Tuesday, getting rid of nineteen people and injuring 107, Egypt's health ministry spokesman said.

The train ended up being exploring from Upper Egypt to help Cairo when that derailed with this Giza neighbourhood connected with Badrashin, a protection source said, adding that this prepare appeared to be some sort of military vehicle carrying conscripted youth upon their own solution to a good army camp.

The suffering a loss people ended up used that will hospitals, Ahmed Omar, the actual health ministry spokesman, told the particular state media bureau MENA.

There was no further information out there about the identities on the 19 useless with the exception of the titles from the hospitals to help that their corpses were being sent, shared about MENA.

"The Egyptian Ambulance Authority provides delivered 66 ambulance cars and trucks for you to the website belonging to the incident to advance this body frames of the harmed along with the corpses of the patients to help hospitals," Omar told MENA.

Egypt's streets and also railways have a very poor safe practices record, in addition to Egyptians have lengthy complained this successive government authorities have still did not bullying even simple safeguards, leading to a string involving lethal crashes.

In November, at least 50 people, mostly children, were killed if a locomotive slammed in to a college bus at a train crossing southwest associated with Cairo, more inflaming open public anger at Egypt's methods transport network.

(This story is corrected inside section five showing passing away toll at 19 rather then 17)

(Reporting by way of Shaimaa Fayed; Editing through Lisa Shumaker and Christopher Wilson)