The Egyptian Public Prosecution announced that the death toll from the Toukh train accident has risen to 23 and about 140 injured, and 23 were imprisoned, including the train driver.
And on Sunday, Egypt witnessed a passenger train overturn, killing 11 people and wounding 98 others, in an initial outcome at the time, as train cars derailed near the Toukh station in Qalyubia Governorate (North).
The prosecution statement clarified that the Attorney General, Hamada Al-Sawy, decided to imprison 23 defendants in the Toukh train accident, including the train’s leader and his assistant, and attributed the decision to “some of them mistakenly caused the death of 23 people and injured 139 other train passengers, and this was due to their negligence and their failure to observe laws and decisions Regulations and regulations. "
He pointed out that the prosecution ordered the arrest and summoning of the director of the Railways Engineering Department in the area of the accident, and asked 29 officials of the (official) Egypt Railways Authority, heard the testimony of 104 injured in the accident, and authorized the burial of the bodies that had been identified.
The Attorney General had summoned the head of the National Authority for Egyptian Railways to hear his statements in front of the operations room formed at the technical office of the Attorney General, and the prosecution statement issued Tuesday indicated that it is "still investigating the incident."
8 cars capsized after the train derailed in Tookh (communication sites)
On Tuesday, the Egyptian Minister of Transport, Kamel al-Wazir, issued 10 decisions to change the positions of the leaderships of the National Authority for Egyptian Railways, which is responsible for managing the country's train sector.
The decisions included the appointment of Mustafa Abdel-Latif Abu Al-Makarem as the new head of the commission, in place of his predecessor, Ashraf Raslan, who was appointed as an advisor to the minister.
The train overturning accident in Toukh is the third of its kind in less than a month, as a collision between two commuter trains in Sohag Governorate (south) on March 26 last killed 32 dead and 165 injured.
While 15 people were injured when two train cars derailed in Sharkia Governorate (North) on April 15.
In May 2018, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics announced in a statement that the main cause of train collision accidents is the human factor, with a rate of 78.9%, followed by defects in vehicles and road conditions.