The Egyptian Foreign Ministry extended on behalf of the Egyptian government and people its condolence to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to the injured.

It also reasserted Egypt’s solidarity with the Greek government and people in that painful accident.

Late Tuesday a passenger train carrying hundreds of people, including many university students returning home from holiday, collided at high speed with an oncoming freight train in a fiery wreck in northern Greece near the city of Larissa, killing 32 and injuring at least 85 according to Greek officials.