5 killed and dozens injured in train crash near Jakarta
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Police said a long-distance train had crashed into the last, women-only, carriage of a commuter train outside the Indonesian capital
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Agence France-Presse
Published: 1:54am, 28 Apr 2026Updated: 6:18am, 28 Apr 2026
Two trains collided outside the Indonesian capital Jakarta late on Monday, killing at least five people, injuring dozens, and prompting a mammoth rescue effort.
First responders were still actively working at the scene in the early hours of Tuesday, with one official telling Agence France-Presse that four people remain trapped in the wreckage.
One survivor told Agence France-Presse of the horrific moments after a long-distance train slammed into the stationary commuter train she was in, trapping people inside mangled carriages.
“I thought I was going to die,” Sausan Sarifah, 29, said from her bed at the RSUD Bekasi hospital where she was admitted with a broken arm and a deep cut to one thigh.
She was on her way home from work, she said, when her train stopped at the Bekasi Timur station some 25km (15 miles) from Jakarta.
“It all happened so fast, in a split second,” Sausan recounted.