On Sunday afternoon, four carriages of a train derailed near Toukh as it traveled north from Cairo to the city of Mansoura.
Egypt’s railway system has a poor safety record, which many observers attribute to successive governments’ lack of investment and poor management.
Prosecutors claim that, “contrary to their claims,” the driver of one of the trains and his assistant “were not in the driver’s cabin” before the crash.
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