DHAKA: A train collision in northern Iran killed at least 31 people and injured about 60 on Friday (November 25).

An Iranian official has told state TV that the death toll from the train collision might increase.

The provincial governor, Mohammad Reza Khabbaz, said that so far 31 bodies have been found at the site of the crash on Friday morning, reports ABC news.

State TV said accident happened in subzero temperatures when a passenger train that was in motion hit another that had stopped at a station about 250 kilometers (150 miles) east of the capital, Tehran.

Pir Hossein Kolivand, who runs Iran’s emergency department, said that 80 people who were injured in the collision were all in hospital.

He says many of them only suffered minor injuries.

BDST: 1750 HRS, NOV 25, 2016
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