Cairo-Sana
The Egyptian Public Prosecution ordered the imprisonment of 23 defendants in the Toukh train accident that occurred last Sunday in Qalyubia governorate, killing 23 people and wounding 139.
The Egyptian website Al-Youm Al-Sabea stated that among the persons affected by the decision of imprisonment were the train commander, his assistant, a worker and the observer for the maintenance of the railways in the area where the accident occurred.
The Egyptian Public Prosecution had reached an initial conception of the accident, which was the fall of several cars from the train while it was walking in front of the village of Sandanhur in the district of Benha in the Qalyubia Governorate due to its exit from the railway strip and the separation of some of its wheelbases from it, which led to its overturning, as the accident resulted in the death of 23 train passengers and the injury of 139 others .