A train crash in central Indonesia killed at least 36 people and injured dozens on Saturday, many of them critically, officials and witnesses said.
The toll was expected to rise with some bodies still trapped in the mangled wreckage.
The accident occurred at a station in Petarukan, a city on the northern coast of Central Java province, at around 3 a.m. as many passengers were sleeping, witnesses told TVOne .
A train from the capital, Jakarta, slammed into a train sitting idle near the platform, causing severe damage to both.
Cendana Banandi, a government life insurance official, told The Associated Press that by midmorning the total number of dead from three separate hospitals stood at 43.
He says another 50 were injured, many of them seriously.
Meanwhile, another passenger train crashed in the town of Solo at around 4 a.m., said Transportation Ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan, adding data was still being collected about casualties.
An official at a public hospital who identified himself only as Peter told Metro TV and El Shinta that one person had died in that crash.
