First Independent Mena Newspaper
Four people were killed and 23 wounded after a passenger train slammed into the buffers at a station north of Cairo, the Health ministry announced Wednesday. The crash took place Tuesday in the city of Qalyub. Authorities say the driver had overshot the station and run into the buffers at the end of the track […]
Excessive speed of 158 km/h was to blame for the train derailment in Bouknadel, a town near Rabat, which left seven people dead and 125 others injured on October 16, the general prosecutor’s office at Salé first instance court said. The driver was arrested and will be tried on charges of involuntary homicide, the prosecutor […]
Pressure is mounting on social media on the government to identify the causes of the train derailment that took place last Tuesday causing 7 deaths and 125 injuries. So far, no one resigned on the backdrop of the accident. Some MPs criticized Morocco’s rail operator (ONCF) and held it responsible for the accident that took […]