Dozens of people are dead and scores more injured after one passenger train hit another one at a station in north-central Iran on Friday. TEHRAN, IRAN—A train collision in northern Iran killed at least 43 people and injured 100 on Friday, Iran’s state media reported. The report said four of the fatalities were railway employees who were on board the two trains when the accident occurred, near the city of Semnan. The report said that in the collision, four carriages derailed and two caught fire. Initial reports had put the death toll at eight but the provincial governor, Mohammad Reza Khabbaz, later told state TV that more bodies were recovered at the scene of the crash.

Source: thestar November 25, 2016 18:33 UTC