Four dead as passenger train derails in Thailand
- From correspondents in Bangkok, Thailand
- From: AFP
- October 05, 2009 11:59AM
A PASSENGER train has derailed in Thailand killing four people and injuring scores of others, officials say.
The overnight train, travelling from the southern Trang province to Bangkok, came off the tracks close to the coastal resort town of Hua Hin at around early this morning Thai local time, said.
Four people were killed in the crash, 26 were sent to hospital and many more were injured at the scene, according to Chatree Charoencheewakul, director of the Emergency Medical Institute of Thailand.
Police could not yet confirm details of casualties but Thailand's Channel 7 reported that more than 100 people were injured when six to eight of the train's 16 carriages derailed.