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Bangkok Post
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At least 8 dead in Bangkok bus-train collision

Flames consume a passenger bus after a collision with a freight train near the Makkasan Airport Rail Link station in Bangkok on Saturday afternoon. (Photo: FM91 Trafficpro)

Eight people have been confirmed dead and at least 24 injured following a collision between a train and a passenger bus near Makkasan station of the Airport Rail Link in Bangkok on Saturday afternoon.

Police at the Makkasan station were alerted at 3.42pm about a fire involving a blue air-conditioned passenger bus (Route No 206) near the Airport Rail Link station on Asok-Din Daeng Road. Firefighters and rescue personnel were dispatched to the scene.

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