Cairo: At least 27 people were killed and 32 injured when a freight train crashed into a mini-bus and a truck near Egypt's capital Cairo in the early hours of Monday, the head of the Ambulance Authority said.
"All the victims had been cleared from the scene," Ahmed el-Ansari told Xinhua, adding that rescue teams remained at the scene for further search operations, but the death toll may rise as some of those injured were in serious condition.
A previous report had quoted a security source as saying that at least 29 people were killed in the accident.
The train was en route to Giza governorate from the southern city of Beni Suef when it hit a mini-bus carrying passengers home from a wedding near the town of Dahshur, some 40 km south of Cairo.
"Initial reports said the drivers of the vehicles ignored warning lights and chains blocking entry to the crossing and tried to cross the tracks," Hussein Zakaria, the head of the Egyptian Railway Authority, told state-run Nile TV.
