A passenger train derailed Sunday north of Cairo, leaving at least 11 people dead and some 98 others injured, a Health Ministry official said, the latest in a string of rail accidents.
The derailment occurred when at least four of the train’s carriages went off the tracks shortly after its departure from a station in Qalyubia governorate en route to Mansoura, state media reported. Almost 60 ambulances rushed to the scene to transport the injured to local hospitals.