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Home / Regional / Africa / Egypt / Society and Culture / History / Railway Fire and Disaster of 2002
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- Back on Track? - Gihan Shahine examines whether new safety measures and a cabinet reshuffle will really help Egypt's ruined railways; from Al-Ahram Weekly Online, Issue No. 577 (14-20 March 2002).
web1.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/577/eg4.htm
- Egypt Begins Mass Burial of Rail Fire Victims - Relates that Egypt began to bury the unidentified victims of its worst rail disaster; from Tehran Times (Tehran), Monday, February 25, 2002.
www.middleeastwire.com/egypt/stories/20020225_meno.shtml
- Egypt Train Tragedy: Safety Standards to Blame? - Early follow-up report (22 February 2002) of the passenger train disaster; from Africa Online.
www.africaonline.com/site/Articles/1,3,45808.jsp
- Egypt Train Workers Plead Innocent - Report dated April 29, 2002, recounting that 11 train workers pleaded innocent to charges of gross negligence; from United Transportation Union News.
www.utu.org/worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=1372
- Eleven Railway Employees Charged in Train Crash that Killed 361 in Egypt - Report of first charges in Egypt's worst train disaster; from Associated Press, March 23, 2002, in Boston Herald.
www2.bostonherald.com/news/international/ap_egypt03232002.htm
- Horror on Egypt fire 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.
www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/02/20/egypt.train
- Hundreds Killed in Train Fire in Egypt - Initial report of the passenger train fire, dated February 20, 2002; by Neil MacFarquhar, in The New York Times.
college4.nytimes.com/guests/articles/2002/02/20/903667.xml
- Hundreds Killed in Train Fire in Egypt - Initial report of the Egypt passenger train disaster; reported by BMWE News.
www.bmwe.org/NW/2002/02FEB/60.htm
- Minister Resigns over Egypt Train Fire - Egypt's President Mubarak accepts the resignations of the transport minister and railway chief after the country's worst rail disaster; from BBC News.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1835000/1835451.stm
- Mubarak Expresses Deep Regret, Offers Condolences to Families of Victims - News release dated February 21, 2002, detailing the gist of the catastrophe and President Mubarik's followup actions; illustrated with six color photos; from Egypt State Information Service.
www.sis.gov.eg/online/html1/feb.htm
- Passenger train catches fire in Egypt, kills 373 - Early account of the passenger train disaster; Associated Press report, Feb 21, 2002.
wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/95/105/05_3.html
- Rage at Ebeid - 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).
www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/576/eg32.htm
- Small Stove Caused Big Inferno - Early report on cause of the Egyptian passenger train tragedy; from News24.
www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Northern_Africa/0,1113,2-11-38_1149784,00.html
- Tragedy in the Making - Description of and commentary on Egypt's worst railway accident, by Jailan Halawi; from Al-Ahram Weekly Online.
web1.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/575/fr1.htm
- Train Fire Kills 373 in Egypt - Initial report on the Egyptian train fire; from The Associated Press, in The Holland Sentinel.
www.thehollandsentinel.net/stories/022102/new_022102028.shtml
- Train Fire That Killed 370 Puts Egypt's Malaise in Spotlight - Political and social commentary on issues raised by the train disaster; by Alan Cowell, in The New York Times.
college4.nytimes.com/guests/articles/2002/03/07/906391.xml
- Train to Tragedy - Describes the catastrophe of the Aswan-bound train, which experts describe as the worst of its kind in rail history throughout the world; from Al-Ahram Weekly Online.
web1.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/575/op4.htm
- Travelling Inferno - Initial coverage of Egypt's deadliest-ever train disaster; from Al-Ahram Weekly Online.
web1.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/574/fr2.htm
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