photo: TASR/Train Derailment in Tunisia: Two People Dead, 34 Injured
Two people, including a train driver, were killed on Wednesday morning in eastern Tunisia after a train derailed and subsequently overturned there. Another 34 people were injured. The state railway company SNCFT is already investigating the accident.
The train derailed an hour after midnight near the town of Masakin, about 150 kilometres south of the capital Tunis.
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