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The death toll in the collision of two passenger trains in Egypt has risen to 32.
As a result of the collision two passenger trains in the Egyptian province of Sohag, which happened on March 26, 165 woundedj) This was reported by the press service of the Egyptian Ministry of Health.
32 people died, according to the report.
The Egyptian Railways Administration said Al jazeerathat the trains collided after unidentified people applied the emergency brakes near the city of Sohag, some 500 km south of the capital Cairo. According to the management, one of the trains stopped and the other crashed into it from behind.
The accident took place in the city of Takhta, trains derailed over a water channel. Initially, it was reported that as a result of the collision, more than 30 people were killed and more than 60 were injured.
According to a Reuters interlocutor in the Egyptian Security Service, the trains were moving at low speed, as a result of the collision, two wagons were destroyed and the third overturned.
Oleg Nikolenko, president of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, said that citizens of Ukraine were not harmed.
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