Train slams school bus in Egypt
Dozens of kindergarteners among 51 killed; residents angered
Posted: November 18, 2012 at 5:22 a.m.
Distraught Egyptians search for loved ones Saturday in the wreckage of a train that crashed into a bus carrying children to a kindergarten near Assiut, Egypt. At least 50 people, most of them children, were killed.
A speeding train crashed into a bus carrying Egyptian children to their kindergarten Saturday in central Egypt, killing 51 and prompting a wave of anger against the government in Cairo.
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