47 CHILDREN DEAD IN EGYPT TRAIN-BUS TRAGEDY
CAIRO: Forty-seven nursery school children were killed on Saturday when a train ploughed into their bus in the central Egyptian province of Assiut, Gov. Yehya Keshk said.

The bus, which was taking 60 children on a trip organized by their nursery, was struck on a railway crossing in Manfalut, 356 kilometers south of Cairo, police said. The children were aged between four and six. A state television correspondent described the scene as “terrifying” with the blood-splattered bodies of children on the ground, before they were taken to nearby Manfalut hospital.

GIRL, SEVEN, FEARED TAKEN BY CROCODILE IN AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY: Australian police searching for a 7-year-old girl feared taken by a crocodile on Saturday said that finding what appeared to be human remains inside a three-meter reptile was a “heartbreaking” development. An extensive search began at first light for the girl who was last seen swimming at the natural pool at an outstation about 340 kilometers east of the city of Darwin on Friday. The girl was swimming with other children and an adult at the time. “Witnesses have told police that a crocodile attacked the male adult before pulling the girl under water,” Senior Sgt. Shaun Gill said. Police searching the waterhole shot dead a three-meter crocodile at the Gumarrirngbang Outstation on Saturday and an examination of the animal revealed what are believed to be human remains in its stomach.

US LIFTS BAN ON MOST MYANMAR IMPORTS
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Moving to encourage reform in Myanmar ahead of a landmark trip by President Barack Obama, the United States has scrapped a nearly decade-old ban on most imports from the long-isolated nation. The world’s largest economy will open up to products from Myanmar with the exception of gems, a sector seen as a major driver of corruption and violence. AFP