Egypt school bus crash

The bus was carrying a lot more than 50 children between the age range of four and six when it had been hit by a speeding educate in southern Egypt.
Hospital authorities said between seven and 11 wounded were being treated in 2 different facilities, many with cut limbs.

At least 47 children were confirmed killed.

Distraught families searched for signs of themselves along the tracks at the site of the accident, near al-Mandara village within the province of Assiut.

Books, school bags and children's socks were strewn down the tracks near the mangled shuttle.

A security official said the item appeared the railroad crossing was not closed as the train sped when it comes to it.
One witness said the train pushed the bus down the tracks for nearly half kilometer.

Angry villagers berated officials within the aftermath of the latest disaster hitting the country's railway system.

Accidents traced to negligence regularly left scores dead over the rule of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, who has been accused of valuing loyalty over competence in many appointments of senior officials.

Saturday's tragedy may be the worst since the country's very first freely elected president, Mohammed Morsi, took power come july 1st.

The state news agency MENA reported that the transport minister offered his resignation on the president.

The agency said Morsi ordered an investigation into the accident and said that those responsible will be held accountable.

Egypt's railway system has a poor safety record, mostly attributed on badly maintained equipment along with poor management.

The railway's worst disaster occurred in February 2002 when a train heading to southern Egypt caught fire, harming 363 people.

Media reports quoted official statistics saying that the rail and road accidents claimed a lot more than seven-thousand lives in 2010.