CAIRO (Reuters) - Two Egyptian passenger trains collided on Saturday south of Cairo, killing at least 14 people and leaving passengers trapped in wreckage after a carriage overturned, security sources said.
The accident took place when a first-class train filled with passengers rammed into a mostly empty stationary train that had been awaiting maintenance but remained on the track, the sources said.
At least one carriage overturned, and 30 people were injured in the crash, medical and security sources said.
Security sources said the moving train was headed from Cairo to Aswan, a major tourist attraction that is home to pharaonic ruins. No foreigners were reported among the casualties.
A series of road and rail accidents in Egypt in recent years has triggered an outcry over the government's handling of transport safety.
Saturday's accident took place in al-Ayyat, which in 2002 was the scene of Egypt's worst rail disaster when fire ripped through seven carriages of an overcrowded passenger train, killing at least 360 people.
A train crash in northern Egypt killed 44 people in 2008, two years after a crash that killed 58 people.
(Writing by Cynthia Johnston; editing by Michael Roddy)
