Dozens reported injured in Egypt after passenger train derails south of Cairo - report

Footage circulating on social media showed train carriages overturned in a field, a short distance from the tracks

Dozens of people were injured when several carriages of a passenger train derailed in central Egypt on Sunday, according to several Middle East-based news outlets.

Footage circulating on social media showed train carriages overturned in a field, a short distance from the tracks. According to the Egyptian newspaper Akhbar al-Youm, at least 60 people were injured. No deaths have been reported. 

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