A train en route to Cairo from Sohag derailed, leaving at least 19 people dead and 120 injured.

[1][2] Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi visited victims of the crash on 15 January, pledging to hold those responsible to account.

The 12-carriage train was carrying more than 1,300 Egyptian soldiers, and according to reports, had to stop several times during the journey to fix an apparent technical problem.

[3] The same stretch of railroad was the site of a head-on collision that killed more than 40 people in 1992.

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