Train crash 42 dead

The death toll from a train crash in northern Egypt rose to 42 on Thursday, a day after the country's worst rail disaster in almost two years, state news agency MENA said. Forty people were also injured on Wednesday when a train ploughed into the vehicles after a truck slammed into a car and a bus waiting at the crossing, pushing them onto the tracks. "The death toll from the Marsa Matrouh accident rose to 42 by Thursday morning," MENA reported. It had put the toll at 40 on Wednesday.MENA said seven of the dead were Libyans. Nineteen had not yet been identified. Egyptian authorities had dispatched a team of experts to investigate the causes of the crash, MENA added.