A rail collision in Egypt’s Giza governorate left seven people dead and 112 injured Sunday, while President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ordered state agencies to investigate and ensure care for survivors.
The Health Ministry said 45 injured people had been discharged after treatment. It reported that 72 ambulances took part in evacuations and placed the crash near Gerza village along the Cairo-Aswan agricultural road.
Egyptian National Railways said the Giza-to-Fayoum service, train No. 134, hit the rear of train No. 2010, which was traveling from Cairo to Aswan. Several carriages left the tracks between Kafr Ammar and Al-Raqqa stations in Al-Ayyat district.
The updated toll follows EconoTimes’ earlier report on the collision. The railway authority sent recovery crews and cranes to clear the wreckage. The Transport Ministry arranged buses on routes between Al-Wasta and El-Ayyat, and between El-Moneib and El-Ayyat, while train service is disrupted.
El-Sisi directed agencies to speed up the inquiry and hold anyone found negligent accountable. Al Jazeera reported that Al-Ayyat also had a train fire in 2002 that killed more than 370 people, as well as several fatal train crashes in 2009.
