Urgent.. The Minister of Transport assigns his deputy and the head of the railway to go to the site of a train collision in Minya
The Railway Authority issued a media statement indicating A tractor collision occurred with the back of sleeper train 1087 (the power car) coming from Aswan Towards Cairo This is in the distance between Abu Qurqas and Minya Which led to the fall of the power car and another car from the train Immediately, emergency equipment and cranes were deployed, the train was separated from the two carriages, and the train moved to complete its journey towards Cairo.
The team, Engineer Kamel Al-Wazir, Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development, Minister of Industry and Transport, assigned the Deputy Minister of Transport for Railways and Electric Traction. The head of the Railway Authority went to the site of the accident and formed a committee of railway specialists to investigate Technical reasons that led to the accident.
