JAKARTA - The assistant train driver was killed in a train derailment of the Penataran train. The train derailed and turned over in Malang, East Java province earlier this afternoon. Six passengers were injured in the accident. The locomotive and the first wagon jumped out of the tracks and crashed into a fence in the Karanglo area in Malang. It is assumed that the train hit a water buffalo before it derailed.
"We evacuated the rest of the passengers in police cars to the next train station to continue their trip," said Setiono, an official with PT. Kereta Api, the Indonesian state-owned railway company. The train had just left from Blitar station and was on it's route to the provincial capital and second largest city of Surabaya. Five of the six wagons however stayed on the track.
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JAKARTA - The assistant train driver was killed in a train derailment of the Penataran train. The train derailed and turned over in Malang, East Java province earlier this afternoon. Six passengers were injured in the accident. The locomotive and the first wagon jumped out of the tracks and crashed into a fence in the Karanglo area in Malang. It is assumed that the train hit a water buffalo before it derailed.
