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Children and adults were reportedly injured on Thursday, January 31 in Pretoria, the South African capital when two commuter trains collided, emergency services said.
According to Reuters reports, about 150 were involved in the accident that occurred when a train crashed into a stationary locomotive near Attridgeville, a suburb west of Pretoria.
The spokesman for the local emergency services, Johan Pieterse said there are 20 people in serious condition and one, the driver of the second train, is in a critical condition. “Train services had been interrupted as a result of the accident, whose cause was being investigated,” he said.
In December, South Africa signed a $5.8 billion ( contract with France‘s Alstom to supply 3,600 new train cars as part of a 10-year programme to overhaul its old rail network.