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2017Aug, 11

At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.

The Alexandria train collision occurred on 11 August 2017 near Khorshid station in the suburbs of the eastern edge of Alexandria, Egypt.

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