A burned body, probably belonging to the man who planted the bomb on Saturday, was found near the train station in the town of Wasta, the ministry said in a statement released later in the day.
Security forces detected three other explosive devices planted on railway tracks linking the capital, Cairo, to the southern city of Aswan, the statement added.
Egypt has been the scene of numerous bombings and armed attacks since the military-led ouster of the nation’s first democratically-elected president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
On Thursday, five officers were injured when a bomb went off in southern Cairo, striking a small police outpost close to Helwan University.
On the same day, four Egyptian civilians were wounded in a stampede at Ramsis railway station in central Cairo following a blast inside the compartment of a train.
Security officials later said the explosion had been triggered by a sound bomb.
In separate incidents, three state transport buses, which were empty, were set on fire in Egypt’s Nile Delta province of Sharqiya on Thursday.
On November 13, at least 16 people were wounded in a crush on a metro train in Cairo after a bomb went off during rush hour.
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