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UPDATE: Train crash – one person dead

Passengers have sustained minor to moderate injuries.

UPDATE at 4.12pm: On-scene reports indicate that between 150 to 200 passengers have sustained minor to moderate injuries and will be transported to Tembisa Hospital and other surrounding facilities.

EMER-G-MED paramedics are on the scene of a train crash where two trains collided at the rail split from Kaalfontein Station towards Oakmoor and Tembisa stations in Esselen Park.

BREAKING NEWS: Emergency vehicles dispatched following reports of train crash

According to Emer-G-Med, one person has been declared dead and is entrapped within the wreckage.
At this stage it is estimated that upwards of 50 passengers have sustained minor to moderate injuries.
EMER-G-MED has dispatched additional ambulances and Advanced Life Support response vehicles to the scene.

 

Photo: Emer-G_Med
Photo: Emer-G_Med

 

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Marietta Lombard

Editor-in-Chief of Caxton Joburg Metro with 26 years' experience in the community newspaper industry. I serve as Gauteng Director and deputy executive director of the Forum of Community Journalists and I am a press representative of the Press Council SA.
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