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There are no Armenians or citizens of Armenia among the people injured in a train crash in Ankara, the Armenian foreign ministry said on Facebook,
TASS reported the train, en route from Ankara to Konya, crashed into a maintenance locomotive when approaching the Marsandiz station.
According to preliminary reports, 9 people have been killed and 46 were injured in the crash. Three of the injured are in serious condition.
An Amtrak train traveling from New York to Miami collided with a CSX freight train early Sunday morning in Lexington County, South Carolina, causing the lead engine and some passenger cars to derail.
Officials confirmed there were at least two people killed and 70 injured among the 139 passengers and 8 crew.
Authorities said it was not immediately clear why the two trains collided near Cayce, South Carolina. The sheriff’s department said all passengers were off the train, with the injured transported to local medical facilities.
The Red Cross said its trained volunteers and staff were also responding.
South Carolina’s Emergency Management Division said 5,000 gallons of fuel was spilled as a result of the crash, with Hazmat responding to the scene. Officials said there was no further threat to the public.
The National Transportation Safety Board, or NTSB, said it was sending a team to the site of the crash.
It was the second major Amtrak incident in less than a week. On Wednesday, a train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat in West Virginia collided with a garbage truck. One person on the truck was killed.
A passenger train collided with a goods train near Liege in Belgium, killing at least three and injuring 40 people, media reported.
Three people died and around 40 were injured late Sunday after a passenger train collided with a freight train west of Liege in Belgium, local media reported.
“The passenger train crashed into the freight train. The investigation into the reasons of the accident is underway,” Frederick Sakr, a spokesperson for the state-run railway company Infrabel said.
The trains collided near Hermalle-sous-Huy on the border between the municipalities of municipality Saint-Georges-Sur-Meuse and Engis, the Belgian news agency Belga cited town mayor Francis Dejon as saying.
The collision was very severe, he told Le Soir newspaper, adding the death toll was preliminary. The cause of the crash is unknown.
Accident de trains à Hermalle-sous-Huy: au moins 3 morts et le bilan pourrait s'alourdir – https://t.co/2MZMQIMllj pic.twitter.com/yu806WSFQm
— Le Soir (@lesoir) June 6, 2016