Badrashin railway accident

The Badrashin railway accident took place near Badrashin station in Giza, Egypt, on 15 January 2013. A train en route to Cairo from Sohag derailed, leaving at least 19 people dead and 120 injured.^[1][2]

Badrashin railway accident
Location of Giza Governorate in Egypt
Details
Date	15 January 2013
Location	Giza Governorate
Country	Egypt
Line	Sohag - Cairo
Operator	Egyptian National Railways
Incident type	Derailment
Statistics
Trains	2
Passengers	1.300
Deaths	19
Injured	120
Damage	2 Train

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi visited victims of the crash on 15 January, pledging to hold those responsible to account. Meanwhile, witnesses said the last carriage of the train jumped the tracks and crashed into another train parked nearby. The 12-carriage train was carrying more than 1,300 Egyptian soldiers, and according to reports, had to stop several times during the journey to fix an apparent technical problem.^[3]

The same stretch of railroad was the site of a head-on collision that killed more than 40 people in 1992.^[4]