CAIRO, Aug. 15– Egypt’s Health Ministry has punished six medics
who took selfies in front of a deadly train wreck by transferring them to a
remote part of the country, local sources said Sunday.
Two trains collided Friday near the Mediterranean city of Alexandria,
killing 41 people in one of the deadliest such accidents in the North
African country. Pictures of an ambulance crew taking selfie pictures in
front the wreckage sparked anger on social media, with one Twitter user
posting a photograph with a hashtag reading: “conscience in a coma.”The
health ministry’s director of emergency services Ahmed al-Ansari said the
six members of the ambulance crew have been transferred to the western Siwa
oasis as punishment.-XINHUA
