Dozens killed, injured in Indonesian train crash
Dozens of people were killed or badly injured when two trains collided in Indonesia’s central Java province early Saturday morning, officials told Reuters.
Local tv showed several carriages had overturned or were badly mangled.
The Associated Press reported that at least 36 people had died in the crash, correcting an earlier report that cited an official saying 43 people had been killed.
The accident happened about 2:45 a.m. local time Saturday (15:45 ET Friday) in Petarukan train station, Pemalang, on the north coast of entral Java. Many passengers were sleeping at the time, witnesses told TVOne.
Sugeng Priyono, spokesman for the national railway PT Kereta Api Indonesia, stated that the Argo Bromo Anggrek train was travelling from Jakarta to the East Java provincial capital city of Surabaya, when it plowed into the stationary Senja Utama train before dawn.
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“The Petarukan station is where double tracks change to a single track,” he said. “Initial report is that the Argo Bromo Anggrek train had not yet been given permission to go ahead when it hit the other train. However, this is still under investigation, so there could be other causes.”
The Al Jazeera news service, which put the death toll at 34 with 27 injured, stated many of the dead and wounded were trapped in three carriages, which were overturned in the crash.
Iskandar Hasan, a national police spokesman, told Al Jazeera that the collision was likely caused by a signal error. “The suspected cause of the accident was a mistake in the traffic management system,” he said.
“We’re still investigating to see if it was due to negligence of the driver or because signaling equipment on one of the trains was faulty,” he said.
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Hospitals ‘understaffed’ Al Jazeera stated the accident happened in a fairly remote area where the hospitals are “quite small” and “severely understaffed.”
Meanwhile, another passenger train crashed in the town of Solo at around 4 a.m., stated Transportation Ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan, adding data was still being collected about casualties.
An official at a public hospital who identified himself only as Peter told Metro TV and El Shinta that one person had died in that crash.
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Indonesia — with a reputation for poor safety standards and maintenance — has been hit by a series of plane, train and ferry accidents in recent years that have left hundreds dead.
Indonesia needs to spend billions of dollars on improving its aging infrastructure, including roads, power plants, railways, and airports.
Under-investment in the years since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis has resulted in several accidents in the transport sector, and has hampered economic development, with the result that Indonesia’s GDP growth is well below potential and lags that of China and India.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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