CAIRO – Over 9 thousand kilometers, Egypt’s railways extend, and some of its lines cut through the middle of cities and villages, and its trains leave more victims every time, the last of whom were two workers in a clothing factory in Helwan, yesterday, Monday, and then 40 injured, today, Tuesday, in an accident. The second was in Alexandria, bringing the total number of injured in the two accidents to about 66, according to official data.
Train accidents in Egypt are no longer shocking news after their succession, to the extent that not a month passes without an accident, and the time approaches until the interval between the last two accidents is less than 24 hours.
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This statement was surprising to many of the tweeters, and some of them received it with more irony. Whoever visited Egypt and rode its trains, and was allowed to look from its windows, knows that the windows of the houses are almost shaking with the windows of the trains, as the railways penetrate the country along the middle of areas, and the houses are not separated from the The railway line in many areas only a few meters away.
Activists on social media said that the words of the Minister of Transport meant the displacement of hundreds of thousands of citizens, and the removal of tens of thousands of homes located on both sides of the railway lines, which are about 10,000 kilometers long, while some of them question the government’s intentions that it wants to expropriate more land to take advantage of its high prices. .
Tweeters also ridiculed the decision to form a committee to study recent train accidents, before which accident files had accumulated.
The Minister of Transport said that Sisi directed the re-planning of the Kafr El-Alo area, where the accident occurred, and the provision of adequate and alternative apartments for the residents, explaining the secret of the train driver’s escape, stressing that the culprit will be held accountable, and a drug analysis will be conducted for the driver.
Tweeters stressed that the recurrence of train accidents at a continuous and accelerating pace recently requires quick accountability of officials, stressing that failure to manage this important vital facility is unacceptable, especially since each accident leaves dozens of victims each time without any significant improvement to provide safety for travelers.
The railway is the largest in the field of transport services, whether passengers or goods, and is considered the backbone of passenger transport in Egypt, transporting about 500 million passengers annually (about 1.4 million passengers per day), in addition to transporting 6 million tons of goods annually.