Passengers posted distress videos to help them via Facebook live broadcast from inside one of the two trains that collided in Sohag this Friday noon.
The video shows a number of citizens screaming and asking for help, while one of them says, "They let people die, the train overturned the people."
The Egyptian Ministry of Health announced the death of 32 people and the injury of 165 others in a train collision in the Tahta district, north of Sohag Governorate in Upper Egypt.
The Ministry of Health stated that a state of maximum preparedness had been announced in the hospitals of Sohag, Assiut, Luxor and Qena governorates to receive the injured.
The accident occurred as a result of unidentified persons tampering with the emergency brakes, according to the Ministry of Transport.
The Minister of Transport issued a decision to detain the drivers of the two trains, while the Egyptian Public Prosecutor called on all parties to stop issuing statements about the accident until the end of the investigations.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi pledged to "a deterrent punishment for everyone who caused this painful incident by negligence or corruption or something else, without exception, delay or delay."
In May 2018, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics in Egypt (official) announced in its latest census an increase in the rate of train accidents to 43.6% in 2017 compared to the previous year.
He stressed in a statement at the time that the main cause of train collisions was the human factor, which amounted to 78.9%, followed by technical defects and the state of the railways.