According to Xinhua News Agency on June 20, the Chilean police reported on the 20th that two trains collided head-on in the Santiago Capital Region of the country on the same day, killing 2 people and injuring 9 people.
The Chinese Embassy in Chile confirmed that four Chinese citizens were among the injured in the accident.
According to the announcement issued by the Chilean National Railways, the accident occurred in the early morning of the 20th, when a freight train collided with a passenger train carrying test personnel in the city of San Bernardo, in the southern part of the Santiago Capital Region. As a result of the impact, two people on the freight train were killed and nine test personnel on the passenger train were injured, and the injured have been taken to the hospital for treatment.
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In an interview with local media, Chilean prosecutors said that the passenger test train had failed to receive timely information that the freight train was coming in reverse on the same track. Before the impact of the impact, the passenger train testers alerted the freight train and moved to the rear of the train, which mitigated the impact of the impact.
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The exact cause of the accident is still under investigation. Eric Martin, president of Chile's national railways, said that train operation monitoring data will be called up to help identify the cause of the accident.
This article is reprinted from the WeChat public account of "Beijing Daily", source: Xinhua News Agency, @CGTN