ISTANBUL

Two people were killed and 31 others injured in a train derailment in eastern Tunisia, according to local media on Wednesday.

A driver and his assistant were killed when a train on the Tunis-Gabes route derailed late Tuesday, state radio reported.

The cause of the accident was not yet clear.

Tunisia has seen several fatal train crashes in recent years.

In March 2022, at least 65 people were injured in a train collision in the capital Tunis.
And in 2015, 18 people were killed when a train hit a lorry and derailed south of Tunis, in one of the country’s worst railway disasters.

*Writing by Ikram Kouachi