Ten De@d After Train Hits Minibus Carrying Children Home From Nursery

Ten persons have been reported dead after a train ploughed through a minibus while it crossed railway tracks in Egypt.

One child is in critical condition, while 10 more people are injured, as a result of the crash along the Qantara East-Bir al-Abd line, near the Suez Canal, on Thursday, March 13.

Pictures from the scene show the tangled metal remains of a red minibus beside a railway track running through Ismailia province, east of Cairo.

The minibus, understood to have mounted the tracks at an unofficial crossing, was carrying children home from nursery at the time, local media reports.
 
All the injured were taken to East Qantara central hospital, in Ismailia province, Egypt’s railway authority said. One child is in critical condition.

Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly has ordered payments to £1,520 to each of the victims’ families.

The national railway authority warned drivers to avoid crossing tracks in unauthorised areas.