By NBC News staff and wire reports
CAIRO -- More than 40 people were killed when a train crashed into a school bus carrying young children in a city south of Cairo Saturday, Egyptian police told NBC News.
Police said many more had been injured.
A doctor at a hospital near the crash site in Assiut, which is around 190 miles south of the capital, told Reuters that among the dead were 37 children aged around four to six years old.
"They told us the barriers were open when the bus crossed the tracks and the train collided with it," doctor Mohamed Samir said, citing witness accounts.
He said two women were also among those injured in the accident.
President Mohammed Morsi ordered his ministers to offer support to the families of those killed, the official news agency reported. Assiut Governor Yahya Keshk ordered an investigation.
Egypt's roads and railways have a poor safety record. Egyptians have complained successive governments have failed to enforce basic safety standards, leading to a string of deadly accidents.
This is a breaking news story. Please check again for more updates.
NBC News' Charlene Gubash and Reuters contributed to this report.
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