The funeral service for 27 victims was held late afternoon at the Mar-Girgis (St George) church in Fayoum Diocese. The bishop of Fayoum, Anba Abra’am presided over the service.
The victims had been heading home to Fayoum at 2:00 am after midnight from a wedding they had attended in the Cairo suburb of Maadi. As their bus and cars crossed the rails at Dahshour, some 40km south of Cairo, a cargo train, that was coming at full speed, hit the bus. The signal had allowed the bus to cross. The collision caused the train to drag the bus forward for almost a kilometer. The prosecution is investigating the incident.