A passenger train traveling between Giza and Fayoum slammed into the rear of another train bound from Cairo to Aswan on Sunday, derailing carriages and injuring at least 64 people on the southern fringe of the Egyptian capital.
The impact splintered tracks in the Al-Ayyat district of Giza province. Metal buckled instantly. The Egyptian Ministry of Health confirmed that ambulances evacuated 64 injured passengers to nearby hospitals for urgent medical care, adding that no fatalities were immediately recorded at the crash site.
Emergency crews and industrial cranes rushed to the corridor to haul derailed rolling stock off the rails and clear the wreckage, the Egyptian Railway Authority announced. Specialized engineering teams began surveying the fractured line to repair track infrastructure and restore rail services to their regular schedule as quickly as possible.
Pressure now mounts on transport regulators over chronic safety failures along this specific rail corridor. The Al-Ayyat district has repeatedly seen disastrous mechanical and operational lapses—including an incident last September where two freight trains collided on the same stretch, leaving a driver and his assistant injured.