Eight killed as coal train hits bus in Serang

A coal train hit a chartered bus at a train crossing near Serang in Banten province on Sunday, leaving at least eight people dead and over one dozen injured, reports said.

"We have admitted more than 20 people from the accident site, eight of them are dead but we have been told that more are being brought in," a nurse at the emergency ward of the general hospital in Serang said, as quoted by AFP.

The coal train hit the bus at a crossing in Lopang near Serang. Most of the victims were bus passengers.

Immediate details of the incident were not available. Serang Police did, however, confirm the crash.

This is the second train accident to hit Banten province in just over one week after another coal train collided with a passenger train in Rangkasbitung on Oct. 25, leaving three people dead. (*)