By NBC News staff and wire reportsCAIRO -- At least 49 people were killed when a train crashed into a school bus carrying young children in a city south of Cairo Saturday, Egyptian police and the governor of the city told NBC News.
Governor Dr. Yahya Taha Kishk said 17 people were injured in the accident in Assiut, which is around 190 miles south of the capital.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) Manfalut hospital, near the crash site, told NBC News that the children killed in the crash were aged around four to six years old and attended a private nursery school.
A doctor at the hospital told Reuters that two women were among those injured.
"They told us the barriers were open when the bus crossed the tracks and the train collided with it," doctor Mohamed Samir added, citing witness accounts.
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