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Egypt’s railway authority head resigns after fatal crash

CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) – The head of Egypt’s railway authority resigned Sunday after 41 people were killed in a train crash, the prime minister’s office said. A statement said that Transportation Minister Hisham Arafat had accepted the resignation of Medhat Shousha. Arafat “affirmed the investigations are ongoing to reveal the causes of the trains’ collision,” according to the statement. Egypt’s latest train disaster saw two trains collide on the Cairo-Alexandria mainline on Friday, leading to […]