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The Public Prosecution has ordered a four-day detention pending investigation for a bus driver carrying students from Galala University, which overturned in Egypt’s northeast this week, claiming the lives of 12 students and injuring 29 others
The Public Prosecution’s investigations revealed that the victim had hailed the accused's car using the Uber smart transportation application. The accused then closed the application to avoid being tracked, and diverted from the intended route, taking her to a remote desert road away from public view. Subsequently, he stopped the car, exited the driver's seat, and assaulted the victim as she resisted.
The Addiction Treatment and Abuse Fund is intensifying campaigns aimed at extracting blood samples from public employees to determine whether they abuse drugs or not.
"How come we entrust the Egyptian lives to a drug addict," the parliamentarian said, criticizing absence of a driver assistant.
The locomotive train that declined this morning and crashed into a buffer stop on platform 6, causing the fuel tank of the locomotive to explode, was discovered to be without a driver, official sources told Egypt Today.
The driver of the train that derailed near Giza on Friday, leaving 55 injured, was kept in custody as official investigations were launched into the accident.
Saudi authorities have arrested seven prominent women's rights advocates, dividing public opinion just weeks before the kingdom is set to lift its driving ban on women.
