Crash site has history of rail disasters – including country’s deadliestpublished at 16:50 GMT
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Samantha Granville
Middle East reporter
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More than 300 people were killed in a fire on a train travelling through the Giza governorate in 2002
The site of Sunday’s accident in Al-Ayyat, in Egypt’s Giza governorate, has a long history of rail disasters.
It was the location of Egypt’s deadliest train tragedy.
In February 2002, a fire engulfed a passenger train travelling from Cairo to Luxor.
The train continued for around nine kilometres before coming to a halt. More than 370 people were officially reported killed, although some estimates put the toll considerably higher.
Two further crashes in the area in 2009 killed dozens more.