Egypt detains rail staff as inquiry unearths safety failures before deadly crash
· Cairo time
Egyptian prosecutors have demanded that two railway employees be detained over alleged failures to monitor signals before a deadly train crash south of Cairo on Sunday.Investigators found that the driver of one of the trains, who died in the crash, had disabled its automatic control system, according to a statement from prosecutors. Additionally, one of the detained employees, a station controller, allegedly altered the signalling log to conceal…
