Casualty figures changed during Sunday. Reuters reported at 15:11 UTC that the Health Ministry’s then-current toll was four dead and 88 injured; a later ministry update carried by Ahram Online said seven had died and 112 were injured, with 45 discharged. Those are successive reports of the same ministry’s updates, not competing independent tallies. Ahram attributed the train numbers, routes, station area and temporary bus arrangements to the Egyptian National Railways and government ministries. No independent finding on the cause or responsibility was available in the reporting reviewed. A bounded search for photographs of the 8 November collision found agency images without established public reuse rights. The two images used are dated contextual photographs: Alexandria Misr station on 7 November 2019 and an Egyptian National Railways locomotive on the Luxor–Aswan line on 6 August 2011. Neither depicts the El-Ayyat collision. Both original files are retained in public/newsroom/source-originals/egypt-giza-train-collision-november-2026; display copies were proportionally resized and converted to WebP without cropping or content retouching.
Two services collided in El-Ayyat
A collision between two passenger trains in Egypt’s Giza governorate killed seven people and injured 112 on Sunday, according to the latest Health Ministry update reported by Ahram Online. The ministry said 45 injured people had been discharged from hospitals after treatment.
Egyptian National Railways said train No. 134, travelling from Giza to Fayoum, struck the rear of train No. 2010, which was heading from Cairo to Aswan. The collision happened between Kafr Ammar and Al-Raqqa stations in El-Ayyat, south of Cairo, and derailed several carriages, Ahram reported.
The casualty count rose through Sunday
Reuters reported at 15:11 UTC that the Health Ministry had then counted four deaths and 88 injuries. The later update carried by Ahram gave the higher toll of seven dead and 112 injured. The change reflects successive official updates as rescue and medical work continued, rather than two independently verified counts.
Ahram said the Health Ministry reported that 72 ambulances took part in evacuations. The casualty total and discharge figure are attributed to the ministry; the reports reviewed did not provide a separate independent count.
An investigation and temporary bus links
President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi called for a swift investigation and said anyone found negligent should be held accountable, Reuters reported. That is an order to investigate, not a finding about what caused the collision or who was responsible.
Ahram reported that transport officials sent buses to carry passengers between Al-Wasta and El-Ayyat and between El-Moneib and El-Ayyat while rail services were being restored. The reports reviewed did not establish a timetable for a full return to normal service.
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- ReutersTrain collision in Egypt’s Giza province kills 4 and injures 88, health ministry saysIndependent report of the early Health Ministry toll and the railway authority’s account that the Giza–Fayoum service struck a Cairo–Aswan train and derailed several carriages; published before the later toll update. · 2026-11-08
- Ahram OnlineGiza’s El-Ayyat train collision death toll rises to seven, 112 injuredLater report of the Health Ministry’s updated seven-death, 112-injury toll and 45 hospital discharges; also reports railway-authority details on the trains, route, derailed carriages and temporary bus arrangements. · 2026-11-08
