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Kereta api Mesir berlanggar di lintasan, 45 maut

Egyptian policemen inspect the wreckage of a train crash near the Mediterranean city of Marsa Matrouh 430 km (270 miles) northwest of Cairo July 16, 2008. Forty people were killed and 40 injured when a train crashed into several vehicles on a railway crossing in northern Egypt on Wednesday, state news agency MENA said.Reuters Pictures

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An injured man is treated at a hospital, after a train crash, near the Mediterranean city of Marsa Matrouh 430 km (270 miles) northwest of Cairo July 16, 2008.Reuters Pictures

Belongings are strewn near the wreckage of a train crash near the Mediterranean city of Marsa Matrouh, 430 km (270 miles) northwest of Cairo, July 16, 2008. Forty people were killed and 40 injured when a train crashed into several vehicles on a railway crossing in northern Egypt on Wednesday, state news agency MENA said.Reuters Pictures

Kereta api Mesir berlanggar di lintasan, 45 maut

17/07/2008 3:25pm

KAHERAH 17 Julai – Seramai 45 orang terbunuh sementara 40 lagi cedera apabila sebuah kereta api melanggar beberapa buah kenderaan di sebuah lintasan kereta api di utara Mesir semalam.

Agensi berita MENA melaporkan, kemalangan berlaku selepas sebuah trak terlanggar beberapa kenderaan termasuk sebuah kereta dan sebuah bas yang sedang menunggu kereta api melalui landasan, menyebabkan kedua-dua kenderaan itu termasuk ke atas landasan.

Beberapa saat kemudian kereta dan bas tersebut dirempuh oleh kereta api.

MENA memetik beberapa pegawai menyatakan bahawa trak tersebut mengalami masalah brek.

Kesan perlanggaran juga menyebabkan dua gerabak kereta api terbalik dan tiga lagi terkeluar dari landasan.

Laporan berita menyatakan mangsa yang maut dan cedera telah dihantar ke beberapa buah hospital tempatan. – Reuters