Indonesia: Train wreck takes 43 lives

A train crash in the central part of Indonesia has killed 43 people, with dozens badly hurt, including many with critical injuries, the official report said.

Izvor: Tanjug

Saturday, 02.10.2010.

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A train crash in the central part of Indonesia has killed 43 people, with dozens badly hurt, including many with critical injuries, the official report said. Indonesia: Train wreck takes 43 lives The report on the dead and injured is not final, due to many passengers still being trapped in the carriages. The accident occurred at the Petarukan station, in the city on the northern coast of Central Java Province, around three o'clock in the morning when many passengers were asleep, witnesses told the local TV station. The accident occurred when a train from the capital Jakarta hit a stationary train at Petarukan station, badly damaging both trains. According to government official Cendana Banandi, 43 people were killed and 50 injured, many of whom were in critical condition. Meanwhile, another passenger train crashed in the city of Solo about four o'clock in the morning, an accident which, according to a witness, left one person dead. The cause of the accident remains unknown for the time being, the most likely reasons for the accident being either a signalling mistake or human error.

Indonesia: Train wreck takes 43 lives

The report on the dead and injured is not final, due to many passengers still being trapped in the carriages.

The accident occurred at the Petarukan station, in the city on the northern coast of Central Java Province, around three o'clock in the morning when many passengers were asleep, witnesses told the local TV station.

The accident occurred when a train from the capital Jakarta hit a stationary train at Petarukan station, badly damaging both trains.

According to government official Cendana Banandi, 43 people were killed and 50 injured, many of whom were in critical condition.

Meanwhile, another passenger train crashed in the city of Solo about four o'clock in the morning, an accident which, according to a witness, left one person dead.

The cause of the accident remains unknown for the time being, the most likely reasons for the accident being either a signalling mistake or human error.

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