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Press Release

SG/SM/8127

20 February 2002

02/20/2002

Press Release
SG/SM/8127

SECRETARY-GENERAL EXTENDS DEEPEST CONDOLENCES FOLLOWING TRAIN FIRE IN EGYPT

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is deeply saddened to learn of the fire that broke out on a moving train today, 40 miles south of Cairo, Egypt, and consumed the lives of upwards of 350 people, many of them children.

The Secretary-General extends his deepest condolences to the relatives of the deceased, and to the Government of Egypt.

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