Three people have been killed and over 100 hundred injured when two commuter trains collided Thursday near Buenos Aries, Argentina. One train was empty and not moving while the other was traveling at regular speed with passengers onboard.
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Associated Press is reporting that firefighters and police are working hard to rescue those still trapped on the train. Many of those injured had to be airlifted by helicopter to near by hospitals. CNN says 150 people were injured when the trains collided.
The names of the two women and one man that were killed have not been released. Authorities still need to notify the victim's families.
"I heard a loud noise and everyone started falling down and people were shocked and crying," says Lida a 26-year-old passenger onboard the train when it crashed.
A woman named Adriana living near the train collision described what she saw to TV crews covering the accident.
"I live just in front of the station. We woke up with a terrible explosion. A train crashed against another one. There [are] people trapped and it took 20 minutes for the police to arrive."
There are no reports yet as to what may have caused the train crash on the Sarmiento rail line, but the media in Buenos Aries is citing faulty brakes as a possible cause, BBC reports.
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