Al-Ahram Weekly Online
14 - 20 March 2002
Issue No.577
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TWO WEEKS LATER: The most devastating train disaster in Egypt's history, in which some 400 people burned to death, triggered public outrage and government pledges that such a tragedy will never happen again. Ambitious government plans to upgrade the railway system have been anounced. As yet, though, as Al-Ahram Weekly's reporters discover, nothing has changed on third class railway carriages

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