A train accident near the Egyptian city of Giza has left at least seven people dead and over 100 injured. According to the nation’s railway authority, multiple carriages derailed and fell down an embankment after two trains heading south from Giza and Cairo collided. As a large rescue operation was initiated, photos from the scene showed people searching for injured passengers inside upturned carriages.
Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, the president of Egypt, declared that he has given state agencies instructions to “investigate the circumstances of the accident, and hold accountable anyone found to have been negligent. The government stated that one of the people who perished in the collision was the train’s driver.
The first train was travelling from Giza to Fayoum, south of Cairo, when it collided with the back of another train that was stopped on the tracks and heading south from Cairo to Aswan.
Some carriages overturned, and at least one appeared to split in two, according to photos taken at the scene. The collision happened in the vicinity of Al-Ayyat’s Kafr Ammar and Al-Raqqa stations, near the site of Egypt’s deadliest train accident in February 2002, when a passenger train from Cairo to Luxor caught fire.
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