Egyptian prosecutors ordered an engineer detained Wednesday pending an investigation into a train crash a day earlier that killed four people near Cairo.
The passenger train crashed into a concrete barrier at a station in the city of Qalyub while traveling on Tuesday to the Nile Delta city of Menouf, prosecutors said in a statement. As a result, the locomotive and the first carriage were knocked off the tracks.
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Initial investigations blamed high speed for the accident, which left at least 23 people injured, according to the statement.
An engineer has been arrested in connection with a train crash that killed four people in Egypt this week.
Prosecutors said that the engineer, the driver of the train, would be detained for four days while the investigation continues.
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This was the last train accident in Egypt, where railway accidents kill many lives every year.
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After a series of deadly accidents in recent years, the government embarked on an ambitious plan to modernize the country’s rail system, which has a long history of mismanagement and poor maintenance.
