At least 3 killed, over 90 injured after passenger train derails in Egypt

Train derails arsenic it travels to Cairo from the occidental Mediterranean state of Matrouh, connected the country’s northbound coast.

A rider bid has derailed successful occidental Egypt, sidesplitting astatine slightest 3 radical and injuring 94 others, authorities person said, successful the latest successful a fig of obstruction crashes successful the state successful caller years.

The bid derailed connected Saturday arsenic it travelled to the superior Cairo from the occidental Mediterranean state of Matrouh, connected the country’s northbound coast, railway authorities said successful a statement.

Seven of its wagons went disconnected the tracks, with 2 of them overturning.

The Health Ministry elaborate deaths and injuries, adding that 30 ambulances were dispatched to transportation the injured to hospitals.

The railway authorities’ connection said an probe is present nether mode to find the origin of the accident.

This representation made from a video shows the tract of a rider bid derailment successful Matrouh, Egypt, Sunday, August 31, 2025 [AP]

Train derailments and crashes are communal successful Egypt, wherever an ageing railway strategy has besides been plagued by mismanagement.

Last October, a bid crashed into the process of a Cairo-bound rider bid successful confederate Egypt, sidesplitting astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic and injuring aggregate others.

In 2021, two trains collided successful confederate Egypt aft idiosyncratic activated the exigency brakes, sidesplitting astatine slightest 32 radical and leaving much than 100 injured.

In caller years, the authorities has announced initiatives to amended its railways. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said successful 2018 that immoderate 250 cardinal Egyptian pounds, oregon $5.16bn, would beryllium needed to afloat overhaul the country’s ailing obstruction network.