Arabic version: تصادم قطارين في مصر يقتل سبعة ويصيب أكثر من 100

According to Allafrica, at least seven people were killed and more than 100 passengers were injured when two trains collided south of Cairo on Sunday. Egyptian authorities said one train struck the rear of another while travelling through Giza province on the route between Cairo and the southern Nile city of Aswan.

Following the collision, one of the trains derailed and several carriages overturned, authorities said. The crash occurred in Giza’s al-Ayyat district, about 52 kilometres south of Cairo. The cause was not immediately clear.

Officials deployed 52 ambulances to the scene. Emergency crews and cranes were also working to clear the railway line and restore traffic through the district.

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said in a social-media post that he had ordered an investigation into the incident. He called on state agencies to hold accountable anyone found to have been negligent.

The crash occurred in the same area as Egypt’s deadliest rail disaster, a 2002 train fire that killed more than 370 people. The region also saw several crashes that claimed dozens of lives in 2009. Egypt has invested billions of dollars in new highways and high-speed rail lines in recent years, but its ageing rail network has continued to face safety concerns and repeated crashes.