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Lima: A train driver is dead and 40 more people are injured, including foreign tourists, after two trains collided head-on along the railway leading to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, the Andean nation’s top tourist site that draws more than 1 million visitors each year.
Police are investigating the collision between trains operated by Inca Rail SA and PeruRail SA, which mainly transport tourists to the iconic site. A health official said about 20 people were in a relatively serious condition.
The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu is visited by more than 1 million people a year.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer
A police officer added that foreign tourists were among the injured.
Images posted on social media shortly after the crash showed the badly damaged locomotives facing each other on the track, broken glass strewn around and injured people being treated on the sides of the tracks.
