Alexandria - Egypt's prosecutor-general, Nabil Sadiq, has ordered an urgent investigation into the collision. Prime Minister Sherif Ismail ordered winches to be dispatched to the site. Megahed said that the dead were transferred to Koum El-Dekka morgue, while injured passengers are at El-Mery, El-Gomhoria, Ras El-Tin, and Mostafa Kamel hospitals. The Egyptian Railways Authority said a train traveling to Alexandria from Cairo, Egypt's capital, hit the back end of another train, which was waiting at a small station in the district of Khorshid, just east of Alexandria. The statement did not say what caused the accident, only that the authority's experts would be investigating.
