At least seven people were killed and more than a hundred injured after two trains collided on Sunday south of Cairo in Egypt’s Giza governorate, the Health Ministry said, according to CNN and agency reports. An earlier official count put the toll at four dead and nearly 90 injured.

The crash occurred between Kafr Ammar and Al-Raqqa stations in the Al-Ayyat area. A Giza–Fayoum train struck the rear of a Cairo–Aswan service that had stopped on the tracks; both were heading the same way, Egypt’s Public Prosecution said.

Several carriages derailed and some slid down an embankment. The National Railways Authority said dozens of ambulances were sent to the scene and cranes were deployed to clear wreckage after traffic on the line was halted.

The Health Ministry said the wounded are being treated at three nearby hospitals and that dozens have already been discharged as their condition improved. A train driver is among the dead, according to later official updates.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered an urgent investigation “to hold accountable anyone found to have been negligent” and offered condolences. Prosecutors opened a formal inquiry into the circumstances and possible safety shortcomings.

Egypt’s rail network — the oldest in Africa and the Middle East — has a long record of deadly accidents, including the 2019 Ramses station fire and a 2017 collision on the Alexandria route. Al-Ayyat was also the site of the country’s worst rail disaster, in 2002.

Source: Two trains collide in Egypt — News.ro