| 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. |
| 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. |
| Egypt's Minister of Transport, Railroad Director Resign: Report dated 22 Feb 2002 announces the resignations of Egyptian Transport Minister Ibrahim el-Dimeiri and Railroad Authority Director Ahmed el-Sherif, following the worst train disaster in Egypt's history; by Tetiana Anderson, in VOA-News.com. |
| 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. |
| Hundreds Die as Fire Engulfs Egyptian Train: A follow-up report, with additional detail, on the Egyptian train disaster; from BMWE News, posted 02/21/02. |
| Hundreds Killed in Train Fire in Egypt: Initial report of the Egypt passenger train disaster; reported by BMWE News, posted 02/20/02. |
| Minister Resigns over Egypt Train Fire: 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 |
| Mubarak Delivers Sympathy Speech to Bereaved Families of the Train Victims: Speech by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, delivered on February 22, 2002, to the families of those who lost their lives in the railroad fire and disaster of February 20, 2002. |
| Officials Charged Over Egypt Train 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. |
| Passenger Train Fire in Egypt Kills 372: Associated Press report, dated Thursday, February 21, 2002, giving updated information on the Egyptian train disaster of the previous day; from Shawnee (Oklahoma) News-Star.com. |
| 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). |
| Railroad Accidents: 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). |
| Seeking Answers in Egypt Train Fire: 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. |
| Train Blaze in Egypt Kills More than 370: Early report, by Nadia Abou El-Magd for the Associated Press, dated February 21, 2002, on "the worst disaster in 150 years of Egyptian railroad history"; from Detroit Free Press. |
| Train Fire Kills 373 in Egypt: Initial report on the Egyptian train fire; from The Associated Press, in The Holland Sentinel. |
| 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. |
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