Practically 500 passengers have been evacuated on Friday morning after two trains collided on the sting of a rice discipline close to the Indonesian metropolis of Bandung, killing no less than three individuals and injuring greater than two dozen others, officers mentioned.

The accident occurred simply after daybreak in Rancaekek District, east of town on the island of Java. Footage from the scene confirmed mangled practice carriages, together with no less than two that had gone off the rails right into a flooded rice discipline.

One practice was a neighborhood commuter line, and the opposite was heading west to Bandung from town of Surabaya when the crash occurred, officers mentioned. Bandung is round 100 miles by street southeast of Jakarta, the capital.

Bandung’s police commissioner, Kusworo Wibowo, mentioned in a televised interview that three crew members had died.

Bey Machmudin, the performing governor of West Java, advised reporters that all the different passengers — an estimated 191 on the commuter practice and 287 on the longer-distance one — had been evacuated. He cautioned that data on casualties was preliminary.