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Tunisia rail-bus collision kills 5, 52 hurt
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AT least five people were killed and more than 50 injured yesterday when a train slammed into a public bus before dawn near Tunis, the Tunisian interior ministry said.
The articulated bus was torn in two when it was struck on the tracks at around 6am near Sidi Fathallah, some 10 kilometers south of Tunisian capital.
Five people, including a child, were killed and another 52 were taken to hospital, many with serious injuries, it said.
Among the injured were eight soldiers, Mosaique FM radio station reported.
A local court official said signals and safety gates had been out of service at the time of the crash. “This failure is at the root of the collision,” Moez Bouraoui, a court spokesman from Ben Arous south of the capital, told Mosaique FM.
President Beji Caid Essebsi visited some of the injured at the Ben Arous hospital.
“I have been told that the signals have not been working for more than 15 days,” Essebsi said. “This is not normal ... we must put an end to laziness, it is everyone’s responsibility.”
Transport Minister Anis Ghedira called for new measures against the destruction and theft of safety barriers.
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