Scene of the crash |
(Scroll down for video) A tragic event occurred in Egypt, were many school children were killed, according to news media reports.
Fifty children, were killed when a train hit a school bus while crossing the tracks at a railroad crossing south of Cairo on Saturday, further inflaming public anger at the deteriorating infrastructure of Egypt.
Witnesses said the crossing barriers were open when the train hit the bus. Transport Minister Mohamed Rashad and the head of the railway authority resigned and President Mohamed Mursi said those responsible would be held accountable.
The bus was sliced in half by the force of the crash. Blood splattered all over and school textbooks, some stained with blood, were also scattered around.
All of the children were between four and eight-years-old, a senior security official in Assiut, near the crash site said. A woman and the bus driver were also killed, he said.
Roads and railways of Egypt have a history of poor safety and Egyptians have complained that successive governments have failed to enforce the most basic guarantees, leading to a series of fatal accidents.
Prime Minister Hisham Kandil traveled to the area to review the situation. But devastated and angry people in a village where the children had been picked to travel to school said they would keep out visiting officials.”
We will not accept any visiting official. They just want to appear in the news media,” Alaa Ahmed al-Hawatka said. They were heading to a school near Manfalut, about 300 kilometers or 190 miles south of Cairo.
Some families of victims protested after the crash. Many Egyptians across the nation were shocked and also angry.
“It is very shameful and a disgrace to this government. All members, not just a minister, should quit. That’s what would happen in any decent country,” Mona Ahmed, a 60-year-old, who is a mother of three children in Cairo, said.
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