A head-on collision between two passenger trains injured 95 people onMonday morning in the south of the Tunisian capital, emergency servicessaid.
“The injured were taken to hospitals and there were no deaths,” civildefence spokesman Moez Triaa told AFP, adding that only one of the trainswas carrying passengers.
Most of the injured were suffering from fractures and bruises, none of themlife-threatening, he said.
Many were in shock, he added, saying around 15 ambulances had beendispatched to treat the wounded or take them to hospital.
The incident happened at 9:30am local time (0830 GMT) in the Jbel Jelloudarea, on the approach to a terminus in central Tunis.
An AFP reporter at the site saw the front of one of the trains had caved in.
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Tunisia’s ageing railway system has seen several deadly crashes in recentyears.
At least five people were killed and more than 50 injured in late 2016 whena train slammed into a public bus before dawn near the site of Monday’scrash.
SOURCE: AFP
