THREE CHARGED FOLLOWING EGYPTIAN CRASH
Posted on 06 November 2009
Three railway employees have been charged with involuntary manslaughter after two trains collided south of Cairo, killing 18 people. The office of the general prosecutor says two conductors together with a third man who allegedly abandoned his post were also charged with damaging public interest. All three were jailed. The actual cause of the crash was a water buffalo that wandered onto the track. A passenger train ran into the animal and stopped. It was then rear-ended by a second train. Long-serving transport minister Mohammed Mansour handed his resignation to President Hosni Mubarak, acknowledging “political responsibility” for the accident. This followed a stormy meeting of parliament’s transport committee, where various MPs called for Mansour’s dismissal. MP Hussein Ibrahim complained that the minister repeated the same excuse after each disaster, like: “It was the dead driver’s fault.”
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