2 Egyptian railway workers sentenced to 10 years for deadly train crash

Two Egyptian railway workers were sentenced to 10 years in prison over a train crash that killed 50 people last November, official news agency MENA reported Saturday. Assiut Court in Upper Egypt convicted the two workers of being negligent of guarding the crossing barrier and fined each of them with 100,000 Egyptian pounds (over 14,000 U.S. dollars) besides imprisonment. "The barrier guards had been asleep when a train diverted from its direction and hit a crossing school bus," MENA quoted a judicial source as saying. The deadly train crash happened on Nov. 17, last year, leaving 50 dead, including more than 40 children. Shortly after the tragedy, the Egyptian transportation minister resigned.