SIX DETAINED FOR FOUR DAYS OVER DEADLY CAIRO TRAIN CRASH
Egypt’s public prosecutor ordered on Thursday the detention of six people for four days in connection with a locomotive that smashed through the buffers and burst into flames at Cairo’s main train station on Wednesday.
The public prosecutor said in a statement, the train’s driver, his assistant, another train driver and three other rail employees will be held for four days pending investigations into the incident.
A preliminary investigation indicated, the driver stepped off the train to talk to another driver without pulling the hand brake, causing the unattended locomotive to speed off and hit a concrete platform.
Security camera footage from inside the capital’s Ramses station showed the train failing to stop as it arrived at platform six, smashing through the buffers and a metal end railing and exploding into a huge ball of fire.
Due to the incident, transport minister Hisham Arafat, who said the train’s diesel tank had exploded, resigned on Wednesday.
BRIEF EXCHANGE OF FIRE ALONG KASHMIR BORDER
Indian and Pakistani troops traded fire briefly along the contested border in Kashmir yesterday morning, a day after the two nuclear powers both downed enemy jets, with Pakistan capturing an Indian pilot.
The United States, China and other world powers have urged restraint from the two nations as tensions escalate following airstrikes in the wake of a suicide car bombing that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Feb. 14.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for talks.
Pakistan and India have fought three wars since independence from British colonial rule in 1947, two over Kashmir, and went to the brink of a fourth in 2002 after a Pakistani militant attack on India’s parliament.
MSF SUSPENDS EBOLA TREATMENT IN EPICENTER OF CONGO OUTBREAK
The French charity on Thursday said, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has suspended medical activities at the epicenter of an Ebola epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo after two of its facilities were torched by unidentified assailants
Two MSF facilities treating Ebola patients in North Kivu province were attacked in separate incidents earlier this week causing aid workers to faced mistrust in some areas as they work to contain the Ebola outbreak.
MSF Emergency Desk Manager Hugues Robert said in a statement, in light of these two violent incidents, they have no choice but to suspend their activities until further notice.
The current Ebola outbreak, first declared last August, is believed to have killed at least 553 people so far and infected over 300 more, which has become the worst in Congo’s history.
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