Social media in Egypt dominated a state of sadness mixed with anger after 32 people died and more than 160 others were injured in a train collision on Friday afternoon in the southern city of Sohag.
Social media platforms were filled with painful pictures and videos from the site of the accident, including footage from inside the train immediately after the accident, which showed a large number of injured people crying out to rescue their friends, and another for the moment of the accident, which showed the result of the force of the collision of great destruction and flying debris to a great distance.
After a short silence, the Egyptian Railways Authority said that the two trains collided after unknown persons used the emergency brakes near the city of Sohag, which led to the suspension of one of the trains and the other colliding with it from the back, without explaining how unknown people could reach these brakes.
In turn, the state-owned Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper quoted an informed source - whom it did not name - as saying that 3 cars of the 157th passenger train derailed, leading to collision with the 2011 Spanish train, and the accident.
The moment the two trains collided in # Sohag.
The primary outcome: nearly 50 dead and dozens of injuries.
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- Hosam Yahia (@HosamYahiaAJ) March 26, 2021
People die in Egypt 😢 # Sohag pic.twitter.com/5tiMlzkPi3
- Ahmed 3mad (@ ahmedelavatar8) March 26, 2021
There is no strength and no strength but with God.
People who caused the accident, I
help you, #Tahta # Sohag pic.twitter.com/3mZ0rxDBAI
- Overthinking.
(@ TTHH__000) March 26, 2021
🚨 # BREAKING |
Egyptian Prime Minister ordered to quickly transport the injured people in the Upper Egypt train collision to hospitals and provide them the medical service. # EgyptToday #BreakingNews #Egypt #Sohag |
#Tahta # Sohag # Urgent # Two trains pic.twitter.com/FDT2vSBPL3
- Egypt Today Magazine (@EgyptTodayMag) March 26, 2021
“Officials, where are you uncle?” ..
Painful words from a victim of a train collision # Sohag pic.twitter.com/yIIsCOOv1B
- Monitoring Network (@RassdNewsN) March 26, 2021
The posts of the pioneers of social networking sites were mostly dominated by grief for the victims of the accident who had befallen the victims of previous accidents that occurred in the same way without real and deterrent punishment, but rather just investigations that ended with the imprisonment of a train driver or a small official, with limited compensation for the families of the victims and the injured before the accident page was closed. Waiting for a new page for a new accident.
The Minister of Transport and Communications, Lieutenant General Kamel al-Wazir, received a large share of the anger of the pioneers of the communication sites, who had expected a number of them not to harm the preferred minister of the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, although he came to the post after the resignation of the former Minister of Transport Hisham Arafat from his post on February 27, 2019 following Ramses station train accident, which killed 21 people and injured 52 others.
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But the citizens' dealings at the scene with the entire minister were different from what he wins from the authority, as he tried to calm those he met upon his arrival to the area of the accident, but they chanted slogans against him asking him to leave.
It was noteworthy that the minister arrived in the area under heavy guard from the army and police forces.
And during the misfortune of the Suez Canal ship, his position of navigation, and Egypt loses billions, a collision accident of two trains occurs in # Sohag, killing 32 and injuring 66 Egyptians. In what happened pic.twitter.com/ZCzyYsB2X5
- ⒶⓂⓇ ⒶⒷⒹ ⒺⓁⒽⒶⒹⓎ Amr Abdel Hadi (@ amrelhady4000) March 26, 2021
In pictures # Egypt is on the threshold of the new republic, which Sisi announced a few days ago!
Greetings to those behind those pictures!
Greetings to Lieutenant General Mohab Mamish, former head of the Suez Canal Authority, owner of the new canal, and to Lieutenant General Kamel, the Minister of Transport, the owner of great projects, and whoever Sisi has promoted workers in them!
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- Muhammad Jamal Hilal (@gamal_helal) March 26, 2021
As usual, the people are the ones who are wrong !!
Ministry of Transport: Two trains in Sohag collided as a result of unidentified persons tampering with the emergency brakes.
... It is the constant "tampering" with the minds of Egyptians to cover up the corruption and crimes of the "known" power criminals.
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- Ahmed Atwan AHMED ATWAN (@ ahmedatwan66) March 26, 2021
Al-Sisi on the development of the railways in a previous conference:
- You said that we will spend 10 billion on the development of railways, mechanization and train tractors!
The 10 billion countries, if you put them in the bank, would benefit them one billion pounds.
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Egypt wakes today to the killing of 50 citizens and wounding dozens in a collision of two trains in # Sohag pic.twitter.com/570M75EMzD
- Hosam Yahia (@HosamYahiaAJ) March 26, 2021
Lieutenant General Osama Rabie .. Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, former
commander of the Egyptian Navy
Lieutenant General Kamel al-Wazir .. Minister of Transport, former
head of the Engineering
Authority
The topic is just a time and it will end, God willing,
O Lord 🙏🇪🇬 pic.twitter.com/ifAYJVWx8U
- 🇪🇬 waleed hafez 🇪🇬 (@ 1st_is_EGYPT) March 24, 2021
# Sohag,
when he
died of skat,
was in his pocket how many pounds,
his origin was not Basha, and with him Yadoub
was a poor worker whose
death was going on him # Oh_your_your_day pic.twitter.com/iIt6OfhMOm
- Ahmed 🩺🎾 (@ Ahmed82098416) March 26, 2021
# Kamil_wazzar
Imagine if that Minister of
civilian transport
was ordered slaughter in Alaghulam label and the
day
was sacked and Athakm
but because he is a
military and close to the
forces of Sese
not Hathakm nor Atsal
and Elly die die of the
people
Btjpruna tell, Mnkhvh you
Down ,
down military rule
Egypt is a
state mesh camp pic.twitter .com / HoOdgHOQ4P
- godyarfa4 (@ 4_arfa) March 26, 2021
The Egyptian Railways Authority announced on Friday noon that two trains collided in the south of the country, and then the authority issued a story accusing unknown people of tampering with the train's emergency brakes, which led to its suspension and the collision of the other from the back, adding that it is conducting further investigations into the accident.