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On Friday, at least 41 people were killed and 179 injured after two trains collided in Egypt's coastal governorate of Alexandria. While the last major train accident occurred in 2013, multiple train accidents occur on average on a daily basis across Egypt. According to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), the past 12 years have seen an average of 1,041 train accidents on an annual basis. A total of 13,539 train accidents occurred between 2004 and 2016, reports…
