At least 19 people have died and more than 100 are injured after a train derailed in Egypt.
Two coaches at the rear of the train, which was carrying army recruits, jumped the track shortly after midnight local time just outside the capital Cairo.
More than 60 ambulances were sent to the scene, where rescuers tried to reach survivors and bodies from a twisted heap of metal left on the side of the rails.
Health ministry officials said 107 people were being treated in hospitals near the site of the accident in Giza's Badrasheen neighbourhood.
Egypt's prime minister Hesham Qandeel was met with howls of outrage when he arrived at the scene, with local residents shouting, "You have blood on your hands, Mr Hesham," according to witnesses.
The accident is the latest in a string of deadly road and rail crashes in Egypt which have claimed thousands of lives.
It comes less than two weeks after a new transportation minister was appointed to overhaul the rail system.
According to media reports, it is the fifth fatal train accident since President Mohamed Morsi was sworn in as Egypt's first Islamist president in June.
The state-owned news website Ahram reported that the 12-carriage train was carrying 1,328 conscripted Egyptian soldiers heading north to Cairo from Assiut, about 350km (£217m) south of the capital.
Roy Hamad Gaafar, a survivor, said he was on board when the last two carriages detached from the rest and derailed.
He told the website: "I saw my colleagues' body parts strewn on the tracks."
The post of transport minister had been left vacant in the aftermath of an accident that killed 49 primary school children in November when a speeding train crashed into their school bus.
Accidents due to negligence regularly killed scores during the three-decade rule of the previous president Hosni Mubarak.
Widespread corruption has also been blamed for the underfunding of government services, like railways, particularly in poor provinces outside Cairo.
According to official statistics, rail and road accidents claimed more than 7,000 lives in 2010.
Transport minister Hatem Abdel Latif, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, said an investigation will be launched.
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