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		</div><p>A deadly train crash at Cairo&#8217;s main station which left 25 people dead was triggered by a brawl between two conductors.</p>
<p>Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek said the conductor of the train that rammed into a station barrier Wednesday and caused a huge explosion and fire had left the vehicle without putting on its brakes.</p>
<p>He said the driver left to fight with another conductor who had blocked his way with the train he was driving.</p>
<p>&#8220;The driver left the railcar without taking any measures to brake it,&#8221; Sadek said in a statement.</p>
<p>Health officials said at least 25 people were killed and dozens more injured in the crash and ensuing fire.</p>
<p>Mohammed Said, the head of the Cairo Railway hospital, said there were concerns the death toll could rise further.</p>
<p>Photographs from the station showed charred bodies lying on the platforms at the Ramsis station in central Cairo as firefighters struggled to get the flames under control.</p>
<p>Heavy black smoke rose into the sky as ambulances rushed to the scene.</p>
<p>The Ramsis district is among the busiest and most crowded areas of the Egyptian capital.</p>
<p>The state railway agency briefly halted all train traffic and ordered the evacuation of the station.</p>
<p>Videos from surveillance cameras inside the station showed flames ravaging the station.</p>
<p>A video that surfaced on social media showed men and women carrying bags and personal belonging and walking on the rail platforms as the train crashed and exploded.</p>
<p>Another video showed men and women running, searching for exits after the explosion.</p>
<p>A man runs back and forth, his shirt on fire, until another man rushes to pour water on him.</p>
<p>Egypt&#8217;s prime minister Mustafa Madbouli said authorities must determine &#8220;who caused the accident and hold that person accountable&#8221;.</p>
<p>He promised &#8220;harsh punishment&#8221; for the culprits.</p>
<p>Egypt&#8217;s transport minister Hisham Arafat later resigned.</p>
<p>Egypt&#8217;s railway system has a poor safety record, mostly blamed on decades of badly maintained equipment and poor management.</p>
<p>Official figures show that 1,793 train accidents took place in 2017 across the country.</p>
<p>In March last year, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said the government lacks about 250 billion Egyptian pounds to overhaul the run-down railway system.</p>
<p>Mr el-Sissi spoke a day after a passenger train collided with a cargo train, killing at least 12 people, including a child.</p>
<p>And in August 2017, two passenger trains collided just outside the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing 43 people.</p>
<p>In 2016, at least 51 people were killed when two commuter trains collided near Cairo.</p>
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