EGP60,000 Compensation For Families Of Children Killed In Assiut Train

The bus, collided by a train in the central Egyptian province of Assiut, was covered by compulsory insurance as well as the consolidated insurance policy which covers motors and individuals against risks of accidents of underground and railway, sources said.

At least 40 young children were killed on Saturday when a train collided with their bus on a railway crossing in Manfalut, 356 kilometres (220 miles) south of Cairo.

Sources added that the compulsory insurance policy pays a death benefit of EGP 40,000 and the consolidated insurance policy pays a death benefit of EGP 20,000.

Therefore, the death benefit for the family of each child died in the accident amounts to EGP 60,000, not EGP 4,000 as the government has earlier stated, sources affirmed.