Hundreds of people including children have been injured after two trains collided during peak hour in the South African city of Johannesburg, police have said.
Al
Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller said at least 259 people were believed to have been
injured in the collision, 100 of whom have already been discharged from
hospital.
No
fatalities were reported.
“What
we do know is that the trains were travelling on the same line and that one
train rear-ended the other,” our correspondent said.
“The
one train had stopped because of a signal when another came from behind us
hooting and smashed into its back,” one commuter said.
The
accident happened at peak hour between two stations, with both trains
travelling from the Johannesburg city centre to the township of Soweto, Lillian
Mofokeng, the Metrorail spokeswoman for the Gauteng province, said.
Authorities
were investigating the cause of the accident.
Last
month, seven people were injured when a train derailed in Johannesburg.
In
April, two passenger trains collided south of Johannesburg, killing the
conductor of one of the trains and injuring 241 people. See more pictures from the scene of the accident.
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