18 dead, 98 hurt in Tunisia train collision with lorry

[WorldNews]

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At least 18 people were killed and 98 injured Tuesday when a train hit a lorry and derailed at a level crossing in one of Tunisia's worst railway disasters, officials said. Most of the dead were passengers on the morning rush hour train which hit the lorry in the village of Tabika, around 60 kilometres (40 miles) south of Tunis, the transport ministry said. "We received the bodies of 17 people," said Riadh Khlifi, director of El Fahes hospital a few kilometres from the accident scene, "and another dead person was sent to Zaghouan hospital".

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