Seven people were killed in a collision between a train and a school bus in northeast Egypt on Friday, according to the country's health ministry. Twenty-six others were injured in the crash, which occurred on a motorway connecting the capital Cairo and the coastal city of Ismailia, health ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar told Ahram Online. The bus was hit by a cargo train while crossing the railway tracks at an unauthorised crossing some 50 kilometres northeast of Cairo, Al-Ahram Arabic news website said. At least nine of those wounded are in a critical condition, the ministry spokesman added, including four children. Accidents at railway crossings are regular occurences in Egypt; a deadly collision in Assiut in 2012 killed 51 people, mostly children, when a train hit a school bus, while in 2013, 30 people died when a minibus collided with a train just south of Cairo. Experts blame lack of maintenance and the poor state of railway crossings for the accidents. Source : Ahram online