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Death toll from Egypt train crash revised down to 19: minister
CAIRO, March 27, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Egypt’s health minister Hala Zayed
said Saturday the death toll from a train collision the previous day had been
revised down to at least 19.
Her ministry had announced on Friday that 32 people had been killed and
165 hospitalised.
“After we honed in on the details of those killed and injured… at this
moment there are 185 injured and 19 corpses and three bags of body parts,”
Zayed said at a press conference, without giving further details.
BSS/AFP/IJ/1840 hrs