Criminal investigation services in Egypt have tracked down the origins of a viral social media video showing a child in the driver’s seat of a moving train. The investigation found that the video was filmed in 2018 inside a train heading from Kafr al-Sheikh station to Qillin station. Investigations also found that there were two people from Kafr al-Sheikh inside the train cabin. After taking legal procedures, they were arrested and confronted with the video. They stated that the filmed the video as a joke, and that the person who had uploaded it was a friend of theirs.

Source: Egypt Independent April 21, 2021 09:00 UTC