ATLEAST 36 KILLED IN EGYPTIAN  TRAIN CRASH

Yesterday August 11th 2017,Authorities said a train travelling from Cairo hit the back of another waiting at a small station in the Khorshid district, just west of Alexandria. 

At least 36 people have died and 123 are injured after 

the 

two trains collided near Alexandria in Egypt, making it the country's worst rail accident in a decade.

Dozens of people 

were 

spoted crowding around the damaged carriages, with bodies on the ground. 

Some

 people were left trapped in the mangled carriages

The events leading up to the crash at 2.15pm local time are unclear, but a security source said a track switching error was the most likely cause.

The stationary train had just arrived from Port Said, a city on the northern tip of the Suez Canal, according to the Egyptian Railways Authority.