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Agence France-Presse

Indonesia’s president ordered an investigation on Tuesday after a long-distance train smashed into a stationary commuter train overnight, killing 14 people and injuring dozens.
Officials ended a nearly 12-hour rescue effort near Bekasi Timur station, east of the capital Jakarta, which saw crews prying open mangled carriages following the Monday night collision.
“And this morning … it is all finished,” Mohammad Syafii, head of the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), told a news conference on Tuesday. “I am certain there are no more victims to be found.”
One survivor described the terror of being trapped inside a crushed carriage.
“I thought I was going to die,” Sausan Sarifah, 29, said from her bed at the RSUD Bekasi hospital where she was admitted with a broken arm and a deep cut to one thigh.
She was on her way home from work, she said, when her train stopped at the Bekasi Timur station some 25km (15 miles) from Jakarta.
“It all happened so fast, in a split second,” Sausan said.
“There were two announcements from the commuter train. Everyone was ready to get off and then suddenly there was the sound of the locomotive, really loud,” she said.
“There was no time to get out and everyone ended up piled up inside the train, crushed on top of one another. I don’t know how the person underneath me is doing.”
She said she had feared suffocating to death in the human pile-up and worried that some pinned underneath did not make it.
“Thank God I was on top so I could be evacuated quickly,” Sausan said.

State-owned rail operator KAI said on Tuesday morning that the death toll had risen to 14. Another 84 people required medical treatment, it said, without specifying how many remained in hospital.
According to Franoto Wibowo, a KAI spokesman, a taxi appears to have clipped the commuter train on a level crossing, causing it to come to a standstill on the tracks, where it was hit.
At the station, chaotic scenes unfolded in the aftermath of the crash with rescuers shouting for oxygen tanks as ambulances stood by in a snaking queue, lights flashing.
People were carried out of the wreckage and loaded into waiting ambulances as hundreds of bystanders looked on, some seemingly in shock.
The military, fire brigade, the national search and rescue agency and the Red Cross aided in the massive evacuation effort that followed.


President Prabowo Subianto on Tuesday visited hospital patients in Bekasi, offered his condolences to relatives of the deceased and said he had ordered an “immediate investigation”.
He also ordered the construction of an overpass in Bekasi.
“In general, we do see that many railway crossings are not guarded,” the president said.
“I have ordered that we immediately repair all these crossings, either by guard posts or by flyovers.”
Jakarta police chief Asep Edi Suheri said the long-distance train had crashed into the last, women-only, carriage of the commuter train.
All the victims were in the commuter train and all 240-odd passengers on the other train had been evacuated safely, according to Anne Purba, another KAI spokeswoman.
The agency said it would cover all medical expenses for the injured and funeral costs for the deceased.

The collision had caused “significant damage to several train carriages”, the Jakarta search and rescue agency said in a statement.
Several people were trapped in the carriages “due to the force of the impact”, it added.
Eva Chairista, 39, said she had rushed to the RSUD hospital after hearing that her sister-in-law, who she named only as 27-year-old Fira, had been injured in the crash.
She arrived at a frenetic scene of medical triage.
“The doctor told us to be patient, there are many whose condition is worse than my sister-in-law’s,” she said.
Transport accidents are not uncommon in Indonesia, a vast archipelago nation where buses, trains and even planes are often old and poorly maintained.
The previous major train crash in the Southeast Asian country killed four crew members and injured about two dozen people elsewhere in West Java province in January 2024.
Sixteen people were killed when a commuter train crashed into a minibus on a level crossing in Jakarta in 2015.


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Police said a long-distance train had crashed into the last, women-only, carriage of a commuter train outside the Indonesian capital


Police said a long-distance train had crashed into the last, women-only, carriage of a commuter train outside the Indonesian capital.


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14 killed and dozens injured in train crash near Jakarta

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Police said a long-distance train had crashed into the last, women-only, carriage of a commuter train outside the Indonesian capital

Police said a long-distance train had crashed into the last, women-only, carriage of a commuter train outside the Indonesian capital