Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov 17 /Trend A.Taghiyeva/
Egyptian Transport Minister Mohammed Rashad Al-Matin resigned after an accident involving a school bus and a train, which killed at least 45 children, TV channel Al Jazeera reported.
Forty-five children, according to preliminary data, were killed and nine people were seriously injured in a train-bus collision that occurred in the Egyptian province of Assiut.
The tragedy occurred at about 8 a.m., local time. Previously it was reported about 30 killed.
According to available information, the train heading from Cairo-Aswan, collided with a bus at a railway crossing near the village Manfalut. There were 60 school children in the bus.
A special commission to investigate the causes of the tragedy and a Committee to provide urgent assistance to the families of the killed and the injured students were created under the Governor of the province.