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Seven people died and at least 100 were injured when two trains collided on Sunday south of Cairo, Egypt's public prosecutor's office reported. The train driver is among the deceased.
The impact occurred in the al-Ayyat district of Giza province, about 52 kilometers (32 miles) south of Cairo, when a train traveling to the southwestern province of Fayoum crashed into the back of a train heading to the southern province of Aswan, according to the Ministry of Transport.
The Public Prosecutor's office said on Sunday night that its investigators had arrived at the scene. An inspection indicated that the crash occurred when the Giza-Fayyoum train struck the last carriage of the Cairo-Aswan train, which was stopped on the same track and traveling in the same direction, authorities noted.
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Train derailments and collisions are common in Egypt, where the railway system has a history of poor management and deficient equipment maintenance. In recent years, the government announced modernization initiatives to improve its railways.
Ayman Gamal, a resident of Kafr Girza in al-Ayyat where the crash occurred, said that people living nearby ran to the scene, pulled out survivors, and called for ambulances.
He said he saw about 80 of the injured being taken by ambulance to nearby hospitals. Some passengers were trapped inside one of the carriages of the stopped train and were dead when they were pulled out, he said.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi stated on social media that he ordered an immediate investigation into the crash.
The Egyptian Railway Authority indicated that emergency crews and cranes were sent to the scene to clear the wreckage and restore rail service to its normal schedule as soon as possible.
A train driver and his assistant were injured last September after two freight trains collided in the same district.
Egypt's deadliest train crash was in 2002, when more than 300 people died after a fire broke out on an overnight train traveling from Cairo to the south of the country.
[Publicidad]