/ 10 March 2001

TWO KILLED IN SA TRAIN CRASH

ONE passenger was killed and 80 injured when the train in which they were travelling slowed to avoid a suicidal man on the tracks and another train crashed into it outside Johannesburg on Friday, a rail representative said. “Two people died, the man and a passenger in the second last carriage of the first train. Another 54 people were taken to hospital,” Metrorail representative Hendrik van Strijk said. “The train slowed down and then a second train behind it could not stop and ploughed into it,” he added. Five of the people were seriously injured. The accident happened at Limindle station near Tembisa township, east of Johannesburg, on Friday afternoon. – AFP