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One dead, 241 injured in South Africa train collision

South Africa: At least one person was killed and more than 200 were injured after two commuter trains collided in a suburb of South Africa's biggest city Johannesburg on Tuesday, train operator Metrorail and emergency services said.

Both trains were traveling from the capital Pretoria when one train crashed into the other in the Johannesburg suburb of Denver, Metrorail spokeswoman Lillian Mofokeng told Talk Radio 702.

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