/Getty ImagesAt least 11 people were killed and at least 98 others were injured following a train accident north of the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday, according to Egyptian authorities. Four train wagons ran off the railway at the city of Banha in Qalyubia province, just outside Cairo, the railway authority said in a statement. The train was travelling to the Nile Delta city of Mansoura from the Egyptian capital, the authority added. Last month, two trains crashed in the Tahta district of the southern Sohag province, killing 18 people and injuring 200 others. The worst accident in the North African country's history occurred in February 2002 in El-Ayyat, south of the capital Cairo, when a fire broke out in a train traveling from Cairo to Luxor killing more than 360 people.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 18, 2021 17:20 UTC