Kafr az-Zayyat
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كفر الزيات Kafr az-Zayyat |
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| Coordinates | 30 ° 49 ′ N , 30 ° 49 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Egypt | ||
| al-Gharbiyya | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | EG-GH | ||
| Residents | 74,549 | ||
Kafr az-Zayyat ( Arabic كفر الزيات Kafr az-Zayyāt , also Kafr el Zayat or El Zayat ) is a city in Egypt .
geography
The city is located in the Nile Delta , in the al-Gharbiyya governorate , right on the border with the al-Buhaira governorate and near Tanta .
The city has 74,549 inhabitants.
history
On January 30, 1954, a serious railway accident occurred in Kafr az-Zayyat train station : The Egyptian President, Muhammad Nagib , had come to visit a village destroyed by fire. Residents rushed onto the tracks to greet him. An express train drove into the crowd from Cairo to Alexandria. 28 people died. In a similar situation, the Daimiel railway accident occurred in Spain in 1866 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 152.