A passenger train travelling towards a railway station in northern Egypt today collided with a second train, killing at least 58 people and injuring 143 – in the latest accident on Egypt’s dilapidated third-class railway service.

A passenger train sped into a northern Egypt railway station today and collided with a second train, killing 51 people and injuring 138.

Two passenger trains collided in northern Egypt today, killing at least 26 people and injuring 131, railway officials told Egyptian state television.

Ten people died and eight others were injured when a minibus swerved to avoid a child and went into a canal in northern Egypt today.

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed six 3,500-year-old tombs.