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Two passenger trains collided in the Al-Ayyat area south of Cairo on Sunday, killing seven people and injuring 112 others.
Egypt’s railway authority reported that a Fayoum-bound train crashed into the rear of a stationary service heading to Aswan, causing six carriages to overturn.
The health ministry confirmed that local hospitals in the Giza area treated victims for fractures, chest trauma, and severe lacerations, with 45 patients already discharged.
Eyewitnesses described chaotic scenes as villagers, railway workers, and first responders scrambled through twisted steel and overturned carriages to free trapped passengers.
Emergency crews deployed heavy cranes and machinery into the evening to clear the mangled wreckage and extract bodies from the site.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi expressed deep concern over the disaster and directed authorities to conduct an urgent investigation to prosecute negligent parties.
The fatal collision occurred at the site of Egypt’s worst rail tragedy—the 2002 train fire that claimed over 370 lives.
Despite significant government investment in highways and high-speed rail lines over the past decade, the country’s heavily relied-upon traditional rail network continues to suffer from ageing infrastructure and recurrent deadly accidents.
