Egypt Train Crash Toll Reaches 41
Four people died from their injuries overnight after a train crashed into several vehicles in northern Egypt, bringing the total number of dead to 41, officials said on Thursday, July 17, 2008. A truck ploughed into traffic at a closed level crossing on Wednesday, pushing a bus, truck and several cars into the path of a passenger train, the official said. At least 40 people were also injured in the crash 80 kilometers east of the Mediterranean city of Marsa Matruh.