Train derailments and crashes are common in Egypt, where an aging railway system has also been plagued by mismanagement. In recent years, the government announced initiatives to improve its railways.

A speeding train crashed into a bus carrying Egyptian children to their school in central Egypt on Saturday, killing at least 51 and driving a wave of anger against the government in Cairo.

Reporting from Cairo — A fight between two train conductors unleashed a speeding, unmanned locomotive that slammed into a barrier and exploded in the Egyptian capital’s main train station ...

A speeding train that crashed into a bus carrying Egyptian children to their kindergarten on Saturday killed 51 and prompted a wave of anger against a government under mounting pressure to rectify ...

Cairo (AFP) – A train crash in Egypt killed four people and injured more than 20, officials said Wednesday about the latest in a series of deadly accidents blamed on ageing infrastructure and ...

BEIJING－Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday sent a message of condolence to his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, over a train collision in the country on Friday in which at least ...

The photo taken on April 18, 2021 shows the scene of a train derailment in Toukh, Egypt.(Photo: Xinhua) Rescuers work at the site of a train derailment in Toukh, Egypt, on April 18, 2021.( ...

Egyptian passengers fed up with waiting for their train to move put logs and rocks on the rails of a nearby track, causing two other trains to collide on Tuesday, an Egyptian security official said.

Most of the dead and injured were poor Egyptians travelling from the capital Cairo to celebrate the Muslim feast of eid al-adha (feast of the sacrifice) with their families in the towns and villages ...

The second train crash in recent weeks has left many injured in Egypt early on Sunday (Oct. 13). Local media reported that a locomotive collided with the rear of a sleeper train en route from ...

Egypt has a poor safety record on its railways and there are several fatal accidents each year. By far the worst recent disaster happened in 2002, when a train travelling south from Cairo was consumed ...