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Emergency
workers at the scene of a crash between two passenger trains near Pretoria,
South Africa today.
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A train driver was killed and at least 90 other people
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."
The News24 wire agency
said the driver had died when his train hit a stationary train.
The trapped woman was
transported by helicopter to hospital after being rescued.
"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.
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