Train crash in Egypt occurred after the crisis brakes on one of the trains, which were going a similar way, were set off by “obscure people”, the rail authority said.

Cairo: At least 32 individuals were killed and 84 harmed when two trains crashed in focal Egypt on Friday, wellbeing service authorities said.

The crash occurred after the crisis brakes on one of the trains, which were going a similar way, were set off by “obscure people”, the rail authority said.

The brakes made one of the trains stop and the second to collide with it from behind, it said. The authority is directing further examinations, it added.

Pictures on neighborhood media showed train carriages wrecked, a few of them seriously harmed, over a channel of water.

The public investigator’s office said it had requested an examination concerning the accident near the Nile-side town of Tahta, around 365 km (230 miles) south of Cairo.

“The trains impacted while going at not high paces, which prompted the annihilation of two carriages and a third to upset,” a security source told Reuters.

The wellbeing service said in an articulation that 32 individuals had passed on and that many ambulances were taking setbacks to neighborhood emergency clinics. A wellbeing service representative said 84 individuals were harmed.

Egypt has one of the most established and biggest rail networks in the locale and mishaps including setbacks are normal.