Trains collide near Jakarta, killing seven, injuring dozens
Trains collide near Jakarta, killing seven, injuring dozens
At the station in Bekasi, chaotic scenes unfolded in the aftermath of the crash, with rescue workers shouting for oxygen tanks as ambulances stood by in a snaking queue, lights flashing.
Workers stand near a damaged train after two trains collided in the city of Bekasi, West Java province, Indonesia, on Apr 27, 2026. (Photo: REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana)
JAKARTA: Rescuers were racing to reach survivors Tuesday morning (Apr 28) outside Indonesia's capital Jakarta after two trains collided overnight, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens.
Anna Purba, a spokeswoman for the state-owned KAI rail company, told local television in the early morning hours that seven people had been killed in the crash and 81 were injured.
She said rescuers were working to get to two people still trapped, alive, in the wreckage.
One survivor told AFP of the horrific moments after a long-distance train slammed into the stationary commuter train she was in, trapping people inside mangled carriages.
"I thought I was going to die," Sausan Sarifah, 29, told AFP from her bed at the RSUD Bekasi hospital where she was admitted with a broken arm and a deep cut to one thigh.
She was on her way home from work, she said, when her train stopped at the Bekasi Timur station some 25km Jakarta.
"It all happened so fast, in a split second," Sausan recounted.
"There were two announcements from the commuter train. Everyone was ready to get off, and then suddenly there was the sound of the locomotive, really loud," she said.
"There was no time to get out, and everyone ended up piled up inside the train, crushed on top of one another. I don’t know how the person underneath me is doing."
She said she had feared suffocating to death in the human pile-up, and worried that some pinned underneath didn't make it.
"Thank God I was on top, so I could be evacuated quickly," said Sausan.
According to Franoto Wibowo, a spokesman for rail operator KAI, a taxi appears to have clipped the commuter train on a level crossing, causing it to come to a standstill on the tracks, where it was hit.
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Trains collide near Jakarta, killing seven, injuring dozens
At the station in Bekasi, chaotic scenes unfolded in the aftermath of the crash, with rescue workers shouting for oxygen tanks as ambulances stood by in a snaking queue, lights flashing.
Trains collide near Jakarta, killing seven, injuring dozens
Workers stand near a damaged train after two trains collided in the city of Bekasi, West Java province, Indonesia, on Apr 27, 2026. (Photo: REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana)
28 Apr 2026 01:23AM (Updated: 28 Apr 2026 08:01AM)
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JAKARTA: Rescuers were racing to reach survivors Tuesday morning (Apr 28) outside Indonesia's capital Jakarta after two trains collided overnight, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens.
Anna Purba, a spokeswoman for the state-owned KAI rail company, told local television in the early morning hours that seven people had been killed in the crash and 81 were injured.
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She said rescuers were working to get to two people still trapped, alive, in the wreckage.
One survivor told AFP of the horrific moments after a long-distance train slammed into the stationary commuter train she was in, trapping people inside mangled carriages.
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"I thought I was going to die," Sausan Sarifah, 29, told AFP from her bed at the RSUD Bekasi hospital where she was admitted with a broken arm and a deep cut to one thigh.
She was on her way home from work, she said, when her train stopped at the Bekasi Timur station some 25km Jakarta.
"It all happened so fast, in a split second," Sausan recounted.
Indonesian rescue members carry a victim after two trains collided in the city of Bekasi, West Java province, Indonesia, on Apr 27, 2026. (Photo: REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana)
"There were two announcements from the commuter train. Everyone was ready to get off, and then suddenly there was the sound of the locomotive, really loud," she said.
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"There was no time to get out, and everyone ended up piled up inside the train, crushed on top of one another. I don’t know how the person underneath me is doing."
She said she had feared suffocating to death in the human pile-up, and worried that some pinned underneath didn't make it.
"Thank God I was on top, so I could be evacuated quickly," said Sausan.
A man stands near a damaged train after two trains collided in the city of Bekasi, West Java province, Indonesia, Apr 27, 2026. (Photo: REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana)
According to Franoto Wibowo, a spokesman for rail operator KAI, a taxi appears to have clipped the commuter train on a level crossing, causing it to come to a standstill on the tracks, where it was hit.
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At the station, chaotic scenes unfolded in the aftermath of the crash, with rescue workers shouting for oxygen tanks as ambulances stood by in a snaking queue, lights flashing.
An AFP reporter at the scene witnessed people being carried out of the wreckage on gurneys and loaded into waiting ambulances as hundreds of bystanders looked on, some seemingly in shock.
As rescuers worked to free many more trapped in the crushed train carriages, deputy house speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad said the toll could rise.
"Judging from the evacuation process that is still under way, it is possible that the number of victims may continue to rise," he told reporters at the scene.
Franoto told Kompas TV the military, fire brigade, the national search and rescue agency, and the Red Cross were aiding in the evacuation effort.
PASSENGERS TRAPPED
Jakarta police chief Asep Edi Suheri said the long-distance train had crashed into the last, women-only, carriage of the commuter train.
All the victims were in the commuter train, and all 240-odd passengers on the other train had been evacuated safely, according to Purba.
The collision caused "significant damage to several train carriages", the Jakarta search and rescue agency said in a statement.
"The incident caused a number of passengers to suffer injuries, and several victims were reported to be trapped inside the carriages due to the force of the impact," it added.
The agency said rescuers were "carrying out the evacuation process for the trapped victims using extrication equipment to free them from the wrecked train structures".
Eva Chairista, 39, told AFP she had rushed to the RSUD hospital after hearing that her sister-in-law, who she named only as 27-year-old Fira, had been injured in the crash.
She arrived to a frenetic scene of medical triage.
"The doctor told us to be patient, there are many whose condition is worse than my sister-in-law’s," she said.
The last major train crash in the Southeast Asian country killed four crew members and injured about two dozen people elsewhere in West Java province in January 2024.
Transport accidents are not uncommon in Indonesia, a vast archipelago nation where buses, trains and even planes are often old and poorly maintained.
Sixteen people were killed when a commuter train crashed into a minibus on a level crossing in Jakarta in 2015.
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