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Two passenger trains collided in the Al-Ayyat area south of Cairo on Sunday, killing at least four people and injuring 88 others.
Egypt’s railway authority reported that a train bound for Fayoum slammed into the rear of an Aswan-bound service, derailing several carriages and crumpling one train’s engine into a tangle of steel.
Emergency responders used heavy cranes to clear the wreckage and transport victims to nearby Giza hospitals.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered an immediate investigation into the disaster, vowing to hold any negligent parties accountable.
The fatal crash occurred at the site of Egypt’s worst-ever rail disaster—a 2002 train fire that claimed over 370 lives—underscoring persistent safety issues across the country’s ageing rail network despite recent billions spent on national transit infrastructure.
