Two persons died and three others were injured in two new crashes, which occurred yesterday near Mersa Matrouh, a summer resort that lies 423km northwest of Cairo, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported yesterday.

It added that the first accident happened when a vehicle crashed into another on the Mersa Matrouh-Alexandria Road. The accident left one person dead and two others injured. Also, on the same route, a vehicle mishap resulted in one death and one injury.Last week, a train rammed into vehicles in the same summer resort after a truck slammed into a car and a bus waiting at a closed level crossing, pushing them onto the tracks near Matrouh. Some 46 people were killed and 43 injured in Wednesday's crash.