Al-Ayat (Egypt) (AFP) - Four people were killed and 88 others were injured on Sunday as two trains collided in the south of the Egyptian capital and caused cars to derail, according to what the authorities reported.

Published on: 08/11/2026 - 18:27

The Egyptian National Railway Authority said that a train heading from Giza to Fayoum collided with the back of another train that was traveling south from Cairo to Aswan.

For its part, the Ministry of Health reported that four passengers were killed, while 88 wounded were receiving treatment in hospitals in the Giza region.

Earlier, the official Al-Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper reported that 120 people were injured, without clarifying the degrees of injuries.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said that he was following “with great interest” the train accident, noting that he had directed “state agencies to provide the necessary medical care, quickly investigate the circumstances of the accident, and hold accountable anyone proven to be negligent.”

The authorities indicated that cranes were being used to remove the debris.

Pictures from Agence France-Presse showed that ambulance personnel and passers-by helped extract one of the victims from the rubble and place her inside a black body bag.

The authorities said that they had opened an investigation into the causes of the collision that occurred in the Al-Ayat area in Giza, which had previously witnessed the worst train accidents in Egyptian history.

In 2002, more than 370 people were killed as a result of a fire on a train in southern Cairo.

In 2009, several train accidents in the region killed dozens.

The railway network, which is used by about one million people daily in Egypt, is one of the oldest train networks in the Middle East, and frequently witnesses collisions and train derailments.

Over the past decade, Egypt has pumped billions of dollars into modernizing its transportation infrastructure, including new highways and high-speed transit lines, but it has yet to renew a significant portion of its aging rail network.

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