Egypt's President Mohammed Morsy accepted Transport Minister Rashad Al-Metini's resignation following his political responsibility for Assiut's accident, Presidential Spokesman Yasser Ali announced. Egypt's Transport Minister Rashad Al-Metini and the head of the Egyptian Railway Authority Mostafa Qenawi resigned, after some 45 children, between 4 and 6 years old, had been killed in a road crash in Assiut. The victims who are the driver and 2 supervisors and 42 kids died on Saturday 8 am, when a train collided with their school bus in the central Egyptian province of Assiut. The bus, which was taking 60 children on a trip organized by their nursery, was struck on a railway crossing in Manfalut, 356 kilometres (220 miles) south of Cairo, a police official source said, adding that 10 other children were badly injured in the accident. The secretary of the ministry of health in Assiut declared that the death toll could rise. President Mohamed Morsy has ordered the Prime Minister, the Ministers of Interiorand Health and the Governor of Assiut to offer all the assistance to the families of the victims.
