Egypt's general prosecutor has ordered on Tuesday the detention of 23 defendants into a deadly derailment of a passenger train en route to the Nile Delta city of Mansoura which killed 23 people and injured dozens. According to an official statement, general prosecutor Hamada Al-Sawy ordered the detention of the train driver, assistant, and other railway workers. The fatal derailment took place on Sunday when four carriages had run off the track near Toukh city in Qalioubiya in the Nile Delta while en route from Cairo, leaving 23 people dead and 139 injured according to an updated toll from the prosecution on Tuesday. Some of the defendants were charged with the wrongful death of 23 of the train's passengers due to negligence, the statement said. More to follow
