Moscow, May 20 (IANS/ITAR -TASS) At least nine people were killed and 45 others injured Tuesday when a passenger train and a goods train collided on the outskirts of Moscow, a police source said.
The incident occurred near the Bekasovo station on the outskirts of Moscow when several cars of the goods train derailed and hit the Moscow-bound passenger train from Moldovan capital Chisinau.
The injured were being treated in hospital.
The interior ministry said there were about 400 people in the passenger train.
--IANS/ITAR-TASS
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