Alexandria - A statement by the Egyptian Railways Authority said a train travelling to Alexandria from Cairo, Egypt's capital, crashed into the back of another train, which was waiting at a small station in the district of Khorshid, just east of Alexandria. The stationary train had just arrived from Port Said, a Mediterranean city on the northern tip of the Suez Canal, when it was hit, according to the statement. The statement did not say what caused the accident, saying only that the authority's experts would be investigating. Video footage from the scene showed mangled train coaches on the tracks as hundreds of onlookers and victims' relatives gathered around on both sides of the tracks. Ambulances were standing by and riot police were deployed to keep the onlookers away from the scene of the disaster. Egypt's railway system has a poor safety record, mostly blamed on decades of badly maintained equipment and poor management.
