Train strikes barrier at main Cairo railway station and explodes, killing at lea

[ignhelper]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/deadly-blaze-in-main-cairo-railway-station-kills-at-least-20-and-injures-40/2019/02/27/bc1acd40-9292-461a-9baa-212e48437f34_story.html

There is NSFL video of a huge fireball and people covered in flames running.

[Flak]

I feel this should be above the article and huge.

[SirKillsalot]

The video is insane. I don't even know what I would be thinking in that scenario given rolling on the floor didn't even help. Dude was running up and down the stairwell completely helpless.

[Electrocuter]

"a fight between two conductors led to the crash"

What the fuck were the idiots fucking thinking?

[Stev]

https://puu.sh/CU7X5/b59282a08b.png

Is egypt still on the fucking chain and buffer coupler system?

America ditched that in the fucking 1870s, what the hell.

[Zakk]

after watching that video of the gas line in mexici exploding.. I cant watch this. I've seen too much death already.

[Gazhelmet]

There are already 6 arrested for the tragedy (one of them the train drivers, their aides and two other rail workers)

The country's top prosecutor ordered late Thursday that those arrested — two train conductors, their aides and two other rail workers — remain in custody
for four more days pending further investigation.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/egypt-arrests-6-over-cairo-train-crash-that-killed-25

I saw the videos that show up ever one pointed direct at platform at exact moment that train crash and the aftermath. (Obviously I'm not going to put the links).but the people who were on the platform at the very moment the train crashed didn't have time to react in time It was too fast.

The train crashed at full speed in reverse. and apparently the driver left the train without activating the brakes when he started fighting with another driver, but the train driver says that was train fault is because the train brakes were too corroded However, apparently the train was in maintenance work or on its way to the workshop

"The brakes are corroded and the wheels are corroded," the driver is quoted as saying by Egypt's ON TV channel.

The privately owned news website al-Shorouk has cited a source as saying the train was undergoing maintenance when it started moving at speed without a conductor.

The source adds that this is not the first incident of its kind, explaining that there had been two other cases of a train moving without a conductor that had not resulted inany deaths or injuries.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47401140

Also:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2019/02/egypt-deaths-injuries-fire-cairo-main-train-station-ramses-190227090036863.html

Witness Ibrahim Hussein said: "I saw a man pointing from the locomotive as it entered the platform, and screaming, 'There are no brakes, there are no brakes’ before he jmped out of the locomotive. And I don’t know what happened to him."

Egyptians have long complained that the government has failed to deal with chronic transport problems in the country, where roads are as poorly maintained as railway lines.

[Spazi]

That's where they were sent off to!

[Freezorg]

Do correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's still used here in Europe.

[Stev]

That is disgusting

[Resonant]

Absolutely horrible. The train comes in at a crazy speed, and the flames that jet out laterally all over the platform is fucking heartbreaking. I had imagined that it was people on the train that got hit by the flames but it was just the folks standing around on the platform.

[Ronin]

Welcome to underdeveloped former members of a particularly shitty empire.