Sumatran train accident claims eight lives
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At least eight people were killed and 60 others injured, 27 seriously, after two carriages of a passenger train collided with each other in Sumatra.
Antara newsagency quotes Mawardi, head of Lampung Province's state-run railway company as saying the accident occurred in the provincial capital Bandarlampung.
He says the driver of the a passenger train applied the emergency brakes to avoid hitting a cargo train.
Mawardi says although he missed the coal train, the sudden breaking caused two carriages to slam into each other.
He says most of the dead and injured were packed in the space between the two carriages.
