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Railway crossing crash, 1 killed, 2 injured

Police, rescuers and bystanders at the railway crossing where a pickup was hit by an express train and hurled into the embankment ditch in Songkhla’s Chana district on Sunday. The pickup driver and his wife were injured. The driver’s younger sister was killed. (Photo: Assawin Pakkawan)

SONGKHLA: A woman passenger died and a newly wed couple were injured when their pickup was hit by an express train at a railway crossing in Chana district on Sunday.

The accident occurred about noon on the railway crossing at Moo 1 village in tambon Paching, about 5 kilometres from Chana railway station. There is a stop sign with a strobe light at the crossing, but no barriers.

The four-door Narathiwat-registered Toyota pickup was hit in the middle…

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