56-Wagons Freight Train collide with a Shunting-Train at Dammam Terminus

Dammam, February 10, 2010, SPA -- Two trains collided here today at the
Dammam Terminus of the Saudi Railways Organization (SRO), leading to stranding
of eight wagons and damaging at the fronts of the two trains.


An official source at the SRO said the Freight Train comprising a locomotive
and 56 wagons bound to Riyadh from Dammam collided with the train which was
shunting at the railway terminus at 1:45 am. The collision caused injuries to
an assistant, a supervisor and a security person at the Terminus in addition to
the injury of the driver of the workshop train.


The injured persons were rushed to a hospital and the driver of the shunting
train remained under medical observation.


The official source said the Civil Defense and Saudi Arabian Red Crescent
Authority (SRCA) as well as maintenance teams and railway police rushed to the
site of the incident.


Meanwhile, maintenance teams are engaged in moving the stranded wagons.

The incident did not affect the movement of the passenger-trains which resumed
today their journeys normally.


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14:39 LOCAL TIME 11:39 GMT NNNN