{"id":4045,"date":"2026-11-09T00:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T19:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2026-11-09T00:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T19:03:56","slug":"train-collision-in-egypt-kills-at-least-7-injures-dozens-health-ministry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4045","title":{"rendered":"Train collision in Egypt kills at least 7, injures dozens, health ministry says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Two passenger trains collided some 76 km (47 \u200cmiles) south of Cairo on Sunday, killing at least seven people and injuring 112, Egypt\u2019s health ministry said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The state \u200brailway authority said a train travelling from \u200bGiza to Fayoum hit the back of \u2060another heading from Cairo to Aswan, derailing several \u200bcarriages.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were clearing the wreckage to restore \u200bservices on the Cairo-Upper Egypt line, the railway authority said, without giving any indication of how long this would \u200btake.<\/p>\n<p>President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered a swift \u200binvestigation and said anyone found negligent should be held accountable, \u200caccording \u2060to a separate statement.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt\u2019s public prosecutor\u2019s office said investigations were underway to determine the technical reasons behind the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt has one of the oldest \u200band largest \u200brailway networks \u2060in the region and accidents involving casualties are common, though the government has \u200bbeen investing billions of Egyptian pounds \u200bto \u2060modernise the network.<\/p>\n<p>In the country\u2019s worst-ever rail disaster, a fire tore through seven carriages of an \u2060overcrowded \u200bpassenger service in 2002, killing \u200bat least 360 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two passenger trains collided some 76 km (47 \u200cmiles) south of Cairo on Sunday, killing at least seven people and injuring 112, Egypt\u2019s health ministry said. The state \u200brailway authority said a train travelling from \u200bGiza to Fayoum hit the back of \u2060another heading from Cairo to Aswan, derailing several \u200bcarriages. Emergency crews were clearing the wreckage to restore \u200bservices on the Cairo-Upper Egypt line, the railway authority said, without giving any indication of how long this would \u200btake. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered a swift \u200binvestigation and said anyone&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}