A passenger train from Giza to Fayoum ran into the back of a Cairo-to-Aswan service in Giza Governorate. President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has ordered a prompt investigation to hold those responsible to account.
Four people have died and 88 have been injured after two passenger trains collided in Giza Governorate, south of Cairo, according to Egypt’s health ministry. A train carrying passengers from Giza to Fayoum ran into the rear of another travelling from Cairo to Aswan. Several carriages left the tracks and fell down an embankment. President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi ordered a prompt investigation to hold those responsible to account.
What happened
Egypt’s National Railways Authority identified the trains as Train 134, the Tahya Misr service between Giza and Fayoum, and Train 2010, bound for Aswan from Cairo, according to Al-Ahram. The crash happened between Kafr Ammar and Al-Raqqa stations, near the village of Gerza in the Al-Ayyat district. Four passenger carriages derailed, Egyptian media reported, and heavy lifting equipment was brought in to remove them and recover the line.
Casualties and the emergency response
The health ministry first said 52 ambulances had gone to the scene. It later revised that to 72 and confirmed four deaths and 88 injuries, Anadolu Agency reported. Its initial hospital breakdown covered 64 patients: 54 taken to Al-Wasta Hospital in Beni Suef Governorate and 10 to Al-Ayyat Hospital in Giza. No equivalent breakdown for all 88 had been published in the latest statement the source found.
Early local reports suggested as many as 140 to 150 injuries, attributed to unnamed sources, and these were not adopted in the ministry’s tally. Masrawy reported, citing unnamed emergency sources, that some injured passengers were taken to hospital in private vehicles, which may partly explain the differing early totals. Youm7 reported that residents near Gerza helped civil-defence crews rescue injured passengers.
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly instructed authorities to give medical care and support to the injured and their families, and to monitor patients’ conditions closely.
Investigation
Egypt’s Prosecutor General ordered a team of public prosecutors to the scene to examine the wreckage, establish the sequence of events and identify anyone potentially responsible, Amwal Al Ghad reported. Investigators are taking statements from injured passengers and witnesses and gathering evidence on damage to the railway. Giza security director Major General Hatem Hassan attended, and police set up a security cordon.
Accounts of the sequence differ. The railway authority’s account, as the source describes it, has the collision coming before the derailment. An anonymous railway official told Al-Shorouk that the Cairo-Aswan train, which the paper described as a VIP service, derailed first and was then struck from behind. Investigators have not confirmed this, and no cause has been established.
Disruption to services
According to Sky News Arabia, citing the railway authority, trains were suspended in both directions between Giza and Upper Egypt. The Transport Ministry put on replacement buses between Al-Wasta and Al-Ayyat and between Al-Moneeb and Al-Ayyat, Al-Mal reported. Crews were told to move undamaged carriages and restore services as fast as possible, and no reopening time had been given.
Earlier incident
The Associated Press reported that two freight trains collided in Al-Ayyat district in September 2026, injuring a driver and his assistant. No connection between the two accidents has been established.
