Dozens Killed in School Bus Crash in Egypt CAIRO (Reuters) - Fifty people, mostly children, were killed on Saturday when a train slammed into a school bus as it crossed tracks south of Cairo, state news media and officials said. Mamdouh Thabet/Associated Press A man sorted through books and bags after a train crashed into a school bus south of Cairo on Saturday. All but two of the dead were children, ranging in ages from 4 to 8, said a senior security official in Assiut, near the site, about 190 miles south of Cairo. A man and a woman were also killed. The destruction made it difficult to count and identify the bodies, officials said. Photos posted on the Web site of an Egyptian newspaper showed that the bus had been broken in half by the force of the crash. Blood was spattered on the front of the engine and school bags and textbooks, some bloodstained, were scattered. The transport minister and the head of the railways authority have resigned, and President Mohamed Morsi said those responsible would be held accountable. Egypt's roads and railways have a poor safety record, and Egyptians have long complained that successive governments have failed to enforce even basic safeguards, leading to a string of deadly crashes. The state news media reported that in addition to the 50 dead, at least 15 people were injured. "They told us the barriers were open when the bus crossed the tracks and the train collided with it," said Mohamed Samir, a doctor at the Assiut hospital where the injured were taken, citing witness accounts. The governor of Assiut, Yahya Keshk, also said the crossing was open. "The crossing worker was asleep," Mr. Keshk told state television. He has been detained. The doctor said the bodies of many of those killed had sustained severe injuries, illustrating the force of the crash, which occurred in the city of Manfalut. A witness to the crash, Ahmed Youssef, said the bus was pushed about a half-mile down the track. The families of victims protested at the crash site, the state news agency reported. Officials sought to reassure them that the case would be investigated and that they would receive help, it said.