Rescue teams found five more bodies Monday after a train jumped the tracks and crashed through shops in a town in northern Egypt. At least 52 people were killed.
Another 101 people were injured when the train derailed Sunday in Kafr el-Dawar, according to health official Nabih Yousef Shaltout. The town is 19 miles southeast of Alexandria.A giant crane lifted the last three cars of the train early Monday, revealing five more mangled bodies. Later, authorities called off the search for survivors.
Shaltout had said before the last bodies were found that there were 47 fatalities. The new death toll was not immediately confirmed by authorities.
Shaltout said most of the dead were bystanders in the town, while most of the injured were passengers.
The train, which was traveling south from Alexandria, left the rails when the driver changed tracks "at high speed," the Interior Ministry said.
Residents flocked to a hospital to give blood, the official Middle East News Agency reported. Others at the site used their clothes to stop the bleeding of the injured, the agency said.
A teenager who saw the crash, Hany Roushdy, said the train was moving very fast. "It did not seem to be able to stop. It shot off the tracks and went toward the town square," he said.
The train crashed through a wall beside the tracks, hit a war memorial in the square and slammed into several shops, witnesses said.