At least seven people were killed and at least 125 injured on Sunday when two passenger trains collided in Egypt's Giza province, about 52 kilometres (32 miles) south of Cairo, officials said. The train's conductor was among the dead.
According to Egypt's Transportation Ministry, a train travelling from Giza to Fayoum ran into the last carriage of a Cairo-to-Aswan train that was standing still on the same track, facing the same direction. The force of the crash overturned carriages near the village of al-Ayyat.
More than 70 ambulances took the injured to nearby hospitals. Cranes and emergency crews worked into the night to clear the wreckage and reopen the line.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said he had ordered a rapid investigation to hold anyone responsible to account, and investigators from the chief prosecutor's office have arrived at the site.
Egypt's railways have a long record of deadly accidents, often blamed on ageing equipment and poor maintenance, despite billions of dollars spent on new transport projects in recent years. Al-Ayyat was also the scene of the country's worst rail disaster, in 2002, when a fire on an overnight train killed more than 300 people.