Eight people were killed today when two separate buildings collapsed in Egypt, police said.

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.

Initial tests have shown that a woman who died this week had bird flu, making her probably the first human death from the disease in Egypt, a spokesman for the World Health Organisation said today.