A passenger train and a maintenance locomotive hit each other head-on, barely five months after another railroad accident in Turkey killed 25 people.
A passenger train collided head-on with a maintenance locomotive in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday morning, and officials said that at least nine people were killed, with 47 others injured.
The crash pushed two carriages of the train off the track, where they smashed into the support legs of an elevated covered walkway, causing it to collapse onto the train. Parts of the train and the walkway also struck and damaged a nearby building.
The train was carrying 206 passengers south from Ankara, the capital city, toward Konya Province, the semiofficial Anadolu news agency reported.
