Passengers dressing up on a Tunisian train and bleeding at Manouba Station

The train number 17 linking Tunisia and Gérard de Sangre, on the evening of yesterday, was attacked by throwing stones at one of his cars and breaking its color as he left Manouba station. The incident occurred after a fall during a ticket check with a group of passengers refusing to release travel information on the train.

Tickets inspectors had six people without tickets, including three young men and three cavaliers, prompting the inspector to notify the station management and use the same-site security assistants to land them. Three passengers settled their status and cut off tickets to continue the journey, while the other three got off and threw stones at the train as it moved.

The official spokesman for the National Railway Company, Hasan al-Ma'amadi, said that the incident did not cause any injuries to passengers, as there were no passengers near the targeted window. He pointed out that repeated attacks directly harm the quality of transport services, as well as depriving the company of commercial use of trains when they are taken out for maintenance.

The deadline revealed that the cost of compensating for the attack-damaged crystal reached 130,000 dinars during the first nine months of 2026 to the Mofi September frontier. These costs amounted to 162 thousand dinars throughout 2025, not counting the losses caused by cancellation of travel and termination of affected trains.

The company's official spokesman called for maintaining public transport and respecting the public facility to avoid increased difficulties for mobility. He stressed that repeated such attacks affect the safety of passengers and disrupt schedules of flights on railways.