A Cairo-bound train on Tuesday rammed into a tractor at a railway station in Beni Suef, some 120 km south of Cairo, Egypt's MENA news agency reported.

The train locomotive and the front car derailed, said the report, adding that the tractor driver and another person sitting by his side were injured.

Train traffic between Cairo and Aswan, some 700 km to its south, was temporarily suspended due to the crash, according to the report.

It was the second train accident in Egypt in two days.

On Monday morning, one train bumped into the rear part of another train in a town some 20 km north of Cairo, killing about 58 Egyptian passengers and injuring 144 others. It was the most serious train accident in Egypt during the last four years.

(Xinhua News Agency August 23, 2006)