A passenger train on Sunday derailed near Cairo injuring at least 109 people, local authorities said, in what is the latest in a series of rail mishaps in Egypt.
A train has derailed between the two cities of Mansoura and Damietta in northern Egypt, the Egyptian Railways Authority has reported.
Eight carriages of the train derailed in the city of Qalyubia, north of Cairo, city authorities said in a brief statement.
Online footage shows several carriages turned over as sirens of ambulances can be heard in the background.
The cause of the accident was not yet clear.
Egypt has seen several railway tragedies in recent years.
Earlier this week, 15 people were injured after another train derailed in the northern province of Minya al Qamh.
On March 26, two passenger trains collided in southern Egypt, killing at least 19 people.
Egypt's worst rail disaster took place in 2002, when a passenger train caught fire, killing more than 360 people.
Northern Egypt’s Alexandria governorate witnessed a train accident at dawn on Sunday, as carriages separated in the Abu Qir area before entering Al-Mamoura station, in the east of the governorate.
No one was killed or injured during the incident. Egypt’s National Railways Authority sent a technical crew to the scene. The separated carriage was reinstalled by the team, allowing the train to continue its journey. The service resumed within two hours.
According to a security source, the Alexandria Governorate Operations Room received a tip that a vehicle had been disconnected from the Cairo-to-Abu Qir train, just before it reached the Al-Mamoura station.
Eyewitnesses shared videos of the reattachment of the separated carriage to the train on social media.
Train passenger Mona Essam said that when the accident happened, chaos ensued, and passengers started jumping from the train doors.
“We did not know what was happening until we learned that the train’s carriage had separated,” she said.
Egyptian media indicated that ambulances arrived at the site of the incident.
The country has seen several train accidents recently, which has resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries.
