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Multiple people were killed when a passenger train collided with a city bus at a crossing in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, at the peak of morning rush hour, police said Wednesday.
Canadian broadcaster CTV reported that at least five people were killed.
Photos show the front end of the double-decker bus was ripped off by the impact with the Via Rail train.
Ottawa Fire spokesman Mark Messier told CP24 television that a number on the bus were injured, but no one on the train was hurt.
The accident just outside a suburban train station in the city’s west end caused Via Rail to cancel trains on its Ottawa-Toronto route.
Pascal Lolgis, who witnessed the crash, said the bus appeared to drive through a lowered crossing barrier.
“Boom! It went into the train like that,” Lolgis said. “”He just didn’t stop.”
More: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-5760…-reported/