CAIRO (Reuters) - The death toll from a train crash in northern Egypt rose to 42 on Thursday, a day after the country's worst rail disaster in almost two years, state news agency MENA said.
Forty people were also injured on Wednesday when a trainploughed into the vehicles after a truck slammed into a car anda bus waiting at the crossing, pushing them onto the tracks.
"The death toll from the Marsa Matrouh accident rose to 42by Thursday morning," MENA reported. It had put the toll at 40on Wednesday.
MENA said seven of the dead were Libyans. Nineteen had notyet been identified.
Egyptian authorities had dispatched a team of experts toinvestigate the causes of the crash, MENA added.
Reckless driving, lax traffic rules and poor roadconditions cause many road crashes in Egypt. A series of roadand rail accidents over the past few years triggered a publicoutcry over the government's handling of road and transportsafety.
Two years ago, a train crash killed 58 people and injuredscores more in the Nile Delta town of Qalyoub, north of Cairo.
(Writing by Aziz El-Kaissouni; Editing by Bate Felix)