(9 Dec 2013) At least seven people died in Indonesia's capital on Monday when a commuter train collided with a truck hauling fuel.
The train, which was carrying about 500 people, was heading towards central Jakarta when it hit the truck carrying 24-thousand litres (6,340 gallons) of petrol.
According to a police spokesperson, the collision killed the train engineer, a technician and at least five others.
The driver survived and was being treated at a hospital.
Derailed carriages lay on their side at the scene of the crash on Monday, as rescue teams sprayed water on the wreck and attempted to cut it open.
Inside one of the eight train wagons shoes and empty water bottles were left behind by passengers trying to escape from the wreck.
"The train used the warning horn twice and the train engineer applied the brake," said Imron, a passenger who survived the crash.
"There was a truck stuck in the middle of the rail road," he added. "The train engineer must have thought that the truck would move away but it didn't, so the train hit it."
Injured passengers were taken to Suyoto hospital in Jakarta.
"At this hospital there were two fatalities and we put them at the morgue. In total we received 72 victims," said Budi Satriyo, the head of Suyoto Hospital.
The cause of the accident is being investigated.
According to a train company spokesperson, all train signals were working at the time of the crash.
The accident occurred near the site of a 1987 crash that killed 156 people and injured hundreds more when two trains collided.
Commuter trains are often packed with passengers due to the lack of other forms of public transportation in Jakarta, which has some of the worst traffic jams in Asia.
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