Eight killed as train hits bus

Eight killed as train hits bus

SERANG, Banten: A coal train hit a chartered bus at a train
crossing near Serang in Banten province on Sunday, leaving at
least eight people dead and over one dozen injured, hospital
staff said.

"We have admitted more than 20 people from the accident site,
eight of them are dead but we have been told that more are being
brought in," a nurse at the emergency ward of the general
hospital in Serang said.

The coal train hit the bus at a crossing in Lopang near
Serang. Most of the victims were passengers on the bus.

Serang Police could not provide immediate information other
than confirming the accident, saying that a police team was still
on site.

It was the second train accident to hit the province in just
over one week after another coal train was involved in a
collision with a passenger train in Rangkasbitung on Oct. 25,
leaving three people dead. --AFP