Train, tractor collide

An Egyptian sleeper train collided with a tractor south of Cairo yesterday, injuring two people, a day after 58 people were killed in Egypt's worst rail disaster for four years, security sources said.

Police arrested the train driver after the collision, one of the sources said.

The collision, in the town of Beni Suef 100 km south of Cairo, derailed two carriages and caused panic among passengers.

In Monday's crash in the Nile Delta town of Qalyoub, a driver apparently ignored a signal and a commuter train ploughed into the rear of another.

Relatives have claimed the bodies of 55 of the dead but three remained unidentified, health officials said.