One dead‚ 80 injured in Joburg train crash

28 April 2015 - 11:06 By RDM News Wire, AFP

There was at least one fatality after two trains collided at Denver station on Johannesburg on Tuesday morning. ER24 reported that one person had lost their life‚ while at least 90 injured Tuesday when two crowded commuter trains collided in Johannesburg, South African officials said, adding that emergency teams had cut one woman free from the wreckage."Paramedics, along with various services, arrived on the scene and found the wrecked trains blocking the tracks completely," Russel Meiring, spokesman for the ER24 paramedic group, said."Bent metal and parts of the train had been spread across the scene.""We have got 90 people injured," Metrorail spokeswoman Lillian Mofokeng told AFP.The trains were both travelling from the capital Pretoria when crash occurred at a station in Denver suburb, east of Johannesburg.Shaun Molokwane (‏@ShaunMMS) tweeted: “Johannesburg #TrainCrash: was in the Business Express train that crashed into the back of another at #Denverstation. Not hurt‚ thanks God”‚ while @MedixGauteng‚ who posted the first pictures from the scene of the accident which occurred just after 7am‚ posted: “Serious train crash at Denver train station. Fatalities”.Rail commuters at Denver were reportedly seen seeking bus and taxi transport as the train collision is believed to have knocked out the power supply to the station.Additional reporting by AFP...

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