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| 'Multiple deaths' in Ottawa as bus and train collide | |
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| At least five people have been killed after a passenger train collided with a bus in Ottawa at a rail crossing, officials have said. | |
| The crash between a double-decker bus and a Via Rail train occurred at the height of morning rush hour in Canada's capital city about 08:48 (12:48 GMT). | |
| The front of the bus appeared to have been ripped off in the collision. Emergency workers are at the scene. | |
| Several people have been taken to hospital with serious injuries. | |
| There were no major injuries reported among the train passengers. | |
| Rob Gencarelli, a student at Ottawa University, was on board the train when it crashed. | |
| "All I felt was a bump and then I saw smoke, and then we were going off the tracks," he told the Canadian news channel CTV. | |
| "I thought we were going to flip over. People were just shocked because it just happened so suddenly." | |
| Eyewitnesses reported seeing the bus driver going into a lowered barrier. | |
| "Boom! It went into the train like that. He just didn't stop,'' Pascal Lolgis was quoted by the Associated Press as saying. | |
| Another witness said the rail barrier was down. | |
| "The train is going through. And I was just looking around, just watching things happen. And noticed that in the bus lane, the double-decker bus. | |
| "I saw him, and he just kept going. He went through the guard rail and just hammered the train, and then it was just mayhem," Mark Cogan told AP. | |
| Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper posted a message on Twitter saying he was "deeply saddened" and that his "thoughts and prayers are with the families of those involved". | |
| It is Canada's worst train accident since a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in a Quebec town in July, killing dozens of people. | |
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