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| - Two passenger trains collided in Egypt on Friday, leaving 32 people dead in one of the country's worst rail accidents in 25 years. Here are some of Egypt's other railroad disasters. Egypt's worst ever rail disaster occurred when a deadly blaze broke out aboard a decrepit train near the city of Al-Ayyat on the Cairo-Aswan line in 2002. The train was packed with families travelling ahead of the Muslim Eid holiday, and 373 people died in the fire. A train collided with a second train stopped on the rails ahead of it in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria in August 2017, leaving 41 people dead and 132 injured. Human error led to catastrophe when a school bus was hit by a train in the city of Manfalut in central Egypt, killing 47 children and four others in November 2012. The man responsible for lowering the crossing barrier had fallen asleep on the job. A tractor trailer that failed to stop at a railroad crossing caused a pileup of vehicles waiting for barriers to lift in Mediterranean resort city of Marsa Matruh in July, 2008. The resulting collision between a high speed train travelling at 80 kilometres (50 miles) an hour and at least five other vehicles including a bus left 44 people dead. In August 2006, 58 people -- most of them commuters on their way to work in Cairo -- died in a collision between two trains sharing the same track in the north of the capital, an accident blamed on a signalman. In October 1998 a train derailed as it changed tracks, smashing through a wall and ploughing into shops in Kafr al-Dawar killing 48 people and injuring 90 others. An investigation found that the automatic break system had been disabled for no reason. A train collided with a bus in Arab al-Raml killing 47 and injuring 42 others when the vehicle failed to stop at the crossing in April 1995. Nine of the train passengers killed had been riding on the roof -- a common practice in Egypt. Later that year at least 75 people died, among them many children on their way to school, when two trains collided in Badrasheen, 20 kilometres south of Cairo. It was later determined that one of the trains had been going at 141 kilometres (90 miles) an hour, much faster than the posted limit of 55 kilometres an hour. fm/ber/nlh/txw/dv
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