The death toll is expected to rise, said train officials, after a speeding train collided with a barrier as it entered the station and burst into flames.
By Sudarsan Raghavan Sudarsan Raghavan Cairo bureau chief covering North Africa and Yemen Email Bio Follow February 27 at 5:45 AM CAIRO — A train slammed into Cairo’s main railway station and exploded on Wednesday, sparking a major fire that killed at least 20 people and injured 40 more. In a statement, Egypt’s National Railway Authority said the blaze erupted after a train entering the station struck a concrete barrier at Ramses Station, located in central Cairo.
“I was standing on the platform and I saw the train speed into the barrier,” eyewitness Mina Ghaly told Reuters. “Everyone started running but a lot of people died after the locomotive exploded.” “I saw at least nine corpses lying on the ground, charred,” he added. Egypt's railway infrastructure has long been neglected by successive governments and previous train accidents have been blamed on a lack of investment and poor management of the railway network.
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