Sunday, October 25, 2009 CAIRO: At least 25 people were killed and 55 others hurt in a collision between two passenger trains on Saturday in Giza southwest of the Egyptian capital, witnesses and police said. "The total has risen to 25 dead and 55 injured and may become worse," a police official at the scene told media. A security services official said: "The trains were travelling on the same track. One ran into the other as they headed towards Upper Egypt." Witnesses initially gave a death toll of 15 and estimated the number of injured people and 24.The crash took place in Al-Ayyat area of Giza, 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Cairo, when one train stopped unexpectedly and another one also heading south from the capital ploughed into it from behind, the security official said. The first train, heading to Sayum, 100 km (65 miles) south of Cairo made an unscheduled halt but the second, on a southbound journey from Cairo towards Assiyut, 400 km (250 miles) from the capital travelled onwards at normal speed until it struck the back of the stationary train, the official said.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in
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