22 People Injured after Two Trains Collide in Ayutthaya,Thailand

Pictures emerged showing the twisted metal of two trains that collided in Thailand injuring at least 20 people

AYUTTHAYA – Police Colonel Nateepat Thammaratsophon has reported two passenger trains collided just north of Bangkok late on Thursday, injuring more than 20 people.

It was not immediately clear what caused the wreck in the central province of Ayutthaya, just north of Bangkok.

The State Railway of Thailand posted a statement on their Facebook page saying a northern-bound train crashed into the rear of another train.

Police Colonel Nateepat Thammaratsophon put the number of injuries at 22, describing most of the injuries as minor except for two people who were in critical condition – one of the train’s drivers and a mechanic.

Nateepat said both trains had departed Bangkok and were headed north when one rear-ended the other in Ayutthaya’s Phachee district. “We are still investigation the cause of the collision,” he said.

The accident was the latest to hit Thailand’s transportation industry.

Earlier Thursday in the southern province of Trang, Thai media reported that a pickup truck driver was killed when his vehicle crashed into a passing train. And in a separate accident Tuesday, a Bangkok-bound passenger train collided with a truck during heavy rains near the northern city of Chiang Mai north, killing seven construction workers in the truck and seriously injuring another, police said. -AP