Algeria train crash injures 21

A total of 21 people were injured when two passenger trains collided on Sunday night near Algiers.

• A suburban commuter train slammed into an express linking the western town of Oran with the capital in the southwestern suburbs.
• The victims were immediately hospitalised. Five of the injured are in a critical state.
• The National Gendarmerie forces moved to the accident place and spent the night there along with railway workers and fire fighters.
• Rail traffic in west of Algiers had been blocked all the day until the trains and the damaged vehicles were removed.
• Commercial director at the railway regional corporation of Algiers Wassila Beriche told Echorouk the injured left the hospital after being treated while the railway general department opened an investigation in the unprecedented crash.
• “The number of passengers coming from Oran was 199 while there were 51 people on the second train,” she added.