Dozens protested at Ramses Train Station Tuesday afternoon after a train accident in the Badrashin district of Giza claimed the lives of 19 central security recruits and injured 117 others.
The demonstrators blamed the government of President Mohamed Morsy for negligence and a poor response to the accident. They chanted: "Down with rule of the supreme guide," "The Assiut and Badrashin martyrs are children and recruits," and "O train of death, pass and remind us of the Assiut children." Last November, more than 50 children were killed when their school bus was struck by a train near a village in Assiut.
Alaa Zaghloul, the coordinator of the protest, held up a banner reading: "Renaissance, the eradication of the people,” referring to President Mohamed Morsy's campaign slogan, "Renaissance, the will of the people."
The protest aims to fully suspend train traffic and create total railway paralysis nationwide, Zaghloul told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
"Maybe that way, officials will move and have a sense of responsibility toward the Egyptian people," he added.
The protesters quarreled with both railway passengers opposed to the protest and Morsy supporters, after which security forces intervened to prevent further clashes.
