The skipper of a pleasure craft boat that sunk in the Nile killing 38 people last week when it collided with a barge has turned himself in to police, Al-Ahram daily said Monday on its website citing Egypt's state news agency Mena.
The 20-year-old man was charged with manslaughter and violating river transport safety, according to news website Aswat Masriya.
He was due to be questioned by prosecutors after he was detained for four days on Sunday, Al-Ahram said.
Initial investigations showed the man the jumped off the chartered pleasure boat when it started sinking in the Nile River after colliding with the barge late last Wednesday near Giza, across the river from Cairo.
The skipper of the barge was arrested shortly afterwards and detained pending investigations.
On Sunday, the Egyptian cabinet introduced a set of safety measures related to transportation on the Nile following the accident, Aswat Masriya said.
The cabinet banned river navigation along Greater Cairo from sunset to sunrise, a restriction that will remain in place until the end of September, according to Aswat Masriya.
Last week's disaster was the latest in a string of accidents that take place every year off on the Nile and off the Egyptian coast and which have been blamed on rickety boats and lax safety procedures.
Six people including a child, were killed when their chartered boat collided with a bridge near downtown Cairo in 2014.
In the deadliest such accident, a ferry sank in the Red Sea in February 2006, killing more than 1,000 people.
