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| Deadly Tunisia train and lorry crash in El Fahes | Deadly Tunisia train and lorry crash in El Fahes |
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| At least 17 people have been killed and 70 others injured after a passenger train collided with a lorry in Tunisia, officials say. | At least 17 people have been killed and 70 others injured after a passenger train collided with a lorry in Tunisia, officials say. |
| It happened at El Fahes, about 60km (40 miles) south-west of the capital, Tunis, during the morning rush hour. | |
| Eyewitnesses have described seeing mangled wreckage at the scene and dead bodies across the tracks. | |
| Ambulances have been sent from neighbouring areas to the crash site to transport the wounded. | |
| The number of dead could rise, Health Minister Said Aydi said. | The number of dead could rise, Health Minister Said Aydi said. |
| 'Driver questioned' | |
| "This is horrible, there is blood... everywhere," one witness told the private Shems-FM radio station, the AFP news agency reports. | |
| "There are people still trapped under the carriage, which overturned." | |
| The driver of the lorry who survived the accident is being questioned by police, a local official told the station. |