Off the rails: Egypt’s deadly record of train accidents
Posted: 29 Mar 2021, 09:16
Off the rails: Egypt’s deadly record of train accidents
The country was among the first to introduce trains, but poor maintenance and deadly accidents have tarnished its history... fatal train accidents are a common occurrence. Figures from the official statistics agency show that there were 1,657 train accidents in 2017, up from 1,249 in 2016...
Egypt was the second country in the world after England to introduce the railway, and the first to do so in Africa and the Middle East...