South Africa train crash: 329 injured in collision

Crash outside Johannesburg is latest in series of rush-hour accidents

Johannesburg train station
Commuters at Johannesburg Park Station
(Image credit: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty)

More than 300 passengers have been injured, 32 of them seriously, after two trains collided during rush hour in a Johannesburg suburb.

A Metrorail service en route to Pretoria slammed into a second Metrorail rail that had come to a halt in Van Riebeeck Park train station, in the northeast of the city, after suffering a mechanical fault.

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