Two trains collided on Friday in Alexandria killing 42 and injuring 133, according to the latest tally by the Health Ministry. “Human error” was likely behind the crash, Transportation Minister Hisham Arafat said on talk show appearances last night. “To avoid it, we have to develop the infrastructure,” he said. President Abdel Fattah El Sisi ordered an investigation into the accident, according to Reuters, and Chief Prosecutor Nabil Sadek has appointed a committee to take up the task. Egypt sees more than 1,000 train accidents on average each year, according to CAPMAS statistics picked up by Egyptian Streets.

Word from the House of Representative rumor mill is that Arafat might sack the head of the Egyptian National Railways, Medhat Shousha, who was called into an “urgent” meeting with the minister yesterday after a fire broke out in another train on the Cairo-Aswan road when the engine overheated, sources tell Al Mal. There were no reports of casualties from the fire. The House’s Transportation Committee has asked both Arafat and Shousha to testify on the incident.