Emergency teams were rushed to the scene, and are working to remove debris from the train collision and restore rail traffic on the Cairo-Upper Egypt line.

Emergency teams were rushed to the scene, and are working to remove debris from the train collision and restore rail traffic on the Cairo-Upper Egypt line.

Emergency teams were rushed to the scene, and are working to remove debris from the train collision and restore rail traffic on the Cairo-Upper Egypt line.

At least seven people—including a train driver—died on Sunday and at least 112 others were injured after two passenger trains collided in southern Egypt's Giza.

Egyptian railway authorities said that the collision took place in the Gerza village of the Al-Ayyat district—between the stations of Kafr Ammar and Al-Raqqa—when a Giza-Fayoum train crashed into the back of another train, which was on its way from Cairo to Aswan, as per a Reuters report.

Emergency teams were rushed to the scene, and are working to remove debris from the crash and restore train traffic on the Cairo-Upper Egypt line.

Visuals from the scene showed people looking in shock at multiple overturned train carriages, with one completely off the tracks.

Injuries sustained in the crash include bruising, fractured limbs, pelvis, and vertebrae and cuts to the head and face, said Egypt's Health Minister Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, as per a BBC News report.

Dr Ghaffar also ordered all health facilities in the Giza and Beni Suef governorates to assist the injured in every way possible.

“72 ambulances participated in the transport and evacuation operations," the Egyptian Ministry of Health said in an initial statement, adding that the injured were being treated in three hospitals: the Al-Wasta Hospital, Al-Ayyat Hospital, and the Atfih Hospital.

The exact reasons behind the collision have not yet been revealed, with Egyptian President Abdul Fattah Al Sisi noting in a statement that the authorities had opened a probe into the tragedy.

(More details are awaited.)

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