South Africa Train Crash Injures 150

At least 150 people have been injured in a collision between two passenger trains in South Africa during the peak morning commute.

Many children were among those injured in the crash, which left the driver of one of the engines needing to be rescued from his cab.

The accident occurred when a train collided with a stationary locomotive near Attridgeville, a suburb west of Pretoria.

"Many are walking wounded and already left. There are 20 people in serious condition and one, the driver of the second train, is in a critical condition," local emergency services spokesman Johan Pieterse said.

Train services have been interrupted as a result of the accident, whose cause was being investigated, he added.

Lillian Mofokeng, spokeswoman for the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa, told AFP: "There are two trains that have collided this morning. At this stage, we do not have any loss of life."

The trains were on the same line toward the capital Pretoria when one train rear-ended the other one from behind.

Ms Mofokeng told the state television station it was not a head-on collision.

The trains were operated by Metrorail, the country's rail system in cities.

South Africa signed a $5.8 billion contract with France's Alstom in December to supply 3,600 new train cars as part of a 10-year programme to overhaul its ageing rail network.

In 2011, 857 commuters were injured in Johannesburg's Soweto township when a passenger train smashed into a stationary train during the peak rush hour period.

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