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Railroad Accidents - http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0001450.html
Succinct compilation of major railroad accidents, which puts the Egyptian disaster of 20 February 2002 into context of other such incidents dating back to 1831; from FactMonster (Information Please). |
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Train Fire That Killed 370 Puts Egypt's Malaise in Spotlight - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E7DC1230F934A35750C0A9649C8B63
Political and social commentary on issues raised by the train disaster; by Alan Cowell, in The New York Times. |
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Rage at Ebeid - http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/576/eg32.htm
Reports early parliamentary debate on the causes of the Upper Egypt train disaster; by Gamal Essam El-Din, in Al-Ahram Weekly Online, Issue No. 576 (7-13 March 2002). |
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Horror on Egypt fire train - http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/02/20/egypt.train/
More than 370 people have died in a blaze on board an Egyptian train, officials say; initial report, from CNN, on February 20, 2002. |
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Officials Charged Over Egypt Train Fire - http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/03/23/egypt.fire/
Report dated March 23, 2002, announcing that prosecutors had charged 11 medium- to low-ranking Egyptian rail officials with negligence, mistakes, and ignoring railroad regulations in the February 20, 2002, railroad disaster; from CNN.com. Eleven Egyptian rail officials have been charged with negligence over a train fire that killed 361 people, prosecutors said. |
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Seeking Answers in Egypt Train Fire - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/02/20/world/main329951.shtml
Report dated February 21, 2002, provides early information on the investigation into causes of the Egyptian train inferno of the previous day; from CBSNews.com. |
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Hundreds Die as Fire Engulfs Egyptian Train - http://www.bmwe.org/News/2002/02FEB/62.htm
A follow-up report, with additional detail, on the Egyptian train disaster; from BMWE News, posted 02/21/02. |
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Egypt Train Workers Plead Innocent - http://www.utu.org/worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=1372
Report dated April 29, 2002, recounting that 11 train workers pleaded innocent to charges of gross negligence; from United Transportation Union News. |
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Minister Resigns over Egypt Train Fire - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1835451.stm
Announces that Egypt President Hosni Mubarak has accepted the resignations of Transport Minister Ibrahim al-Demeri and head of the country's railway authority, Ahmed al-Sherif, after the country's worst rail disaster; from BBC News, Friday, 22 February 2002 |
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Hundreds Killed in Train Fire in Egypt - http://www.bmwe.org/News/2002/02FEB/60.htm
Initial report of the Egypt passenger train disaster; reported by BMWE News, posted 02/20/02. |