According to foreign media reports, Egyptian prosecutors said on the 11th that they found that there was a major negligence of railway employees behind the fatal train collision accident on March 26, which caused a nationwide outcry.
Egyptian prosecutors said in a detailed statement on the 11th that they found that the driver of one of the trains and his assistant had deactivated the automatic train control system (ATC) before the crash. The ATC system is a mechanism that guides the safe operation of trains and involves speed control.
According to prosecutors' reports, the investigation also revealed that the train driver's assistant and the dispatcher at a station not far from the crash site had used drugs.
Prosecutors also allege that guards in control towers smoked marijuana while aides to train drivers used marijuana and opioid analgesics. The statement did not elaborate on whether drugs affected their decision-making at the time of the train collision.
Prosecutors said they had not yet completed their investigation into the train accident.
Two Egyptian trains collided in the Tahta region of Sohag province on March 26, killing 18 people and injuring hundreds more. The Egyptian prosecutor's office said on March 29 that authorities had ordered the arrest of eight people. "The Attorney General ordered that two drivers, their two assistants, a guard from a traffic control tower, the head of traffic management at Asyut and two other guards be detained," prosecutors said in a statement. ”
Source: China News Network