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2 trains crash in Egypt after passengers tired of waiting put stones, logs on tracks.

Egyptian passengers fed up with waiting for their train to move put logs and rocks on the rails of a nearby track, causing two other trains to collide on Tuesday, an Egyptian security official said. At least four people were injured.





The security official said some of the passengers in Giza, Cairo’s twin city, were enraged that they had to wait for more than 30 minutes on their train to allow another train to pass. Some of the restless passengers placed logs and rocks on the rails of the track of the other train that was holding theirs up. When the speeding train approached, the debris caused it to sideswipe another train. Three cars of the fast-moving train overturned.

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Update: No deaths in train crash, ministry says.

The Health Ministry announced that no one was killed when a passenger train was derailed and caught fire in Giza on Tuesday.

The ministry said that there were four injuries, contrary to earlier reports that 20 people had been injured.

The head of Egypt’s ambulance services, Ahmed al-Ansari, said in a statement that the injured people sustained bruises and were treated at the scene.

The train was heading from Cairo to Sohag, Upper Egypt, state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper reported, adding that the accident took place in the Badrasheen neighborhood in southern Giza.

Five train cars overturned when the train collided with another that was stopped at the Badrasheen station.

Eyewitnesses told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the accident was caused by an error in the track switch, while Al-Masry Al-Youm’s correspondent, who was on board of one of the trains, said the collision occurred in the rear cars.

There have been reports of casualties, which the Giza governor said he could not yet confirm.

A source at the Railways Authority claimed to Al-Ahram that the second train had to stop for the first to pass but the passengers did not want to wait and got out and switched the tracks, leading to the collision.

Source: http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/up ... istry-says

2 different stories on what happened

DJKeefy wrote:2 different stories on what happened

That's Journalism for you..

We like to call it "artistic Licence"... All depends on the agenda really...

Seems Patience is a virtue after all..

Bullet Magnet wrote:That's Journalism for you..

No, that's the new "instant" journalism for you – unchecked "facts" and speculation pushed out onto the net as quickly as possible. Good journalism is still around ... as you say, patience is a virtue!