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Egyptian authorities detain engineer over deadly train crash

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Egyptian prosecutors Wednesday ordered the detention of an engineer pending an investigation into a train crash a day earlier that killed four people near Cairo.

The passenger train slammed into a concrete barrier at a station in Qalyub city while traveling Tuesday to the Nile Delta city of Menouf, prosecutors said in a statement. As a result, the locomotive and the first carriage were knocked off the tracks.

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Initial investigations blamed high speed for the crash, which left at least 23 people injured, according to the statement.

An engineer has been detained in connection to a train crash that killed four people in Egypt this week.

Prosecutors said the engineer, the train’s driver, would be detained for four days while an investigation continues.

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It was the latest train crash in Egypt, where railroad accidents claim many lives every year.

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Following a series of deadly crashes in recent years, the government embarked on an ambitious plan to modernize the country’s railway system, which has a long history of mismanagement and poor maintenance.

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