CAIRO, Apr 21 (NNN-MENA) – A total of 23 people have died from the train derailment, in a city north to Egypt’s capital city of Cairo, the official Ahram Online news website reported.
The accident happened when four carriages of the train, travelling from Cairo to the Delta city of Mansoura, derailed in the city of Toukh, on Sunday.
Egypt’s top prosecutor has ordered the detention of 23 people, including the train driver, assistant, a railway maintenance observer at the crash site, and others for further investigation into the accident.
Earlier in the day, Egypt’s Minister of Transportation, Kamel al-Wazir, sacked the chairman of the state-run National Railways Authority (NRA).
Egyptian rail accidents are mostly blamed on poor infrastructure, maintenance, human errors, and negligence.
On Mar 26, at least 20 people died and nearly 200 were wounded, in a two-train crash in southern Egypt.
The deadliest train accident in Egypt took place in 2003, leaving more than 300 dead.– NNN-MENA
