Prime Minister Hisham Qandil and the Ministers of Interior, Health, and Insurance and Social Affairs arrived at Assiut to supervise the investigation and visit the injured. Qandil went to Assiut's General Hospital to visit the injured children, but the families demonstrated against him and forced him to go out of the hospital. Security Forces closed all the ways before the angry families to protect Qandil, while the demonstrators chanted against him and Morsy asking them to step down. The recently assigned Railway Authority Head Hussein Zakareyya said that victims' families prevented the workers from removing the implications the incident, but “they are excused,” as he claimed. “The road is closed for 30 kilometres distance,” he added. 47 children, a driver and 2 supervisors were killed and som 17 were injured, while a bus was struck by a train on a railway crossing in Manfalut, 356 kilometres (220 miles) south of Cairo.
