Four people have been killed and at least 42 were injured after two commuter trains collided in Indonesia’s West Java province, the authorities have said.
The accident on Friday happened when a long-distance train from the country’s second-largest city, Surabaya, collided with a commuter train near Bandung, the provincial capital, said Adita Irawati, a spokesperson for the transport ministry.
A total of 478 passengers were on board the trains, said Ibrahim Tompo, a spokesperson for West Java police.
Passengers were later seen being helped out of train carriages.
The front carriages of both trains were mangled wrecks while others further back had derailed and overturned on a stretch of tracks cutting through rice fields.
The four fatalities were train staff – the driver and his assistant on the commuter train and a steward and a security guard on the express train, Ibrahim said.
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