At least 14 people dead in Egypt train collision

CAIRO:  At least 14 people were killed and 24 others injured in a collision between two trains on Saturday in Giza district southwest of the Egyptian capital, with more bodies believed caught in the rubble, medical sources said.

A security services official said: "The two trains collided at al-Ayyat, in Giza. There are deaths and injuries."

"The trains were travelling on the same track. One ran into the other as they headed towards Upper Egypt," the security official said.

El-Ayatt and al-Wasta hospitals in Cairo received 40 wounded passengers, Said Abd el-Rahman Shaheen, spokesman for the ministry of health, adding that the death toll was yet to be determined and denying reports that more than 30 people have perished in the crash, Al Arabiya TV reported.

One medical source said people appeared to be trapped under an overturned train.

Fatal train crashes are not unusual in Egypt.

A train crash in northern Egypt killed 44 people in 2008, two years after a crash that killed 58 people. In 2002, at least 360 people were killed when fire ripped through seven carriages of a crowded passenger train.