A train has derailed south of Egypt's capital Cairo, injuring at least 15 passengers, officials have said, according to BBC News.

Some reports say the passenger train burst into flames, and unconfirmed accounts say it collided with a lorry.

One passenger told BBC Arabic in Cairo that some people had been killed, though that account has not been confirmed.

The train was heading into Cairo from the province of Suhag when it came off the line in the Badrashin area of Giza.

Egypt's last major rail crash was in 2009, when some 18 people were killed and dozens injured in a collision between two passenger trains in the Giza area.

In 2002, a train caught fire in Cairo killing 373 people.