{"id":554447,"date":"2026-04-28T04:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554447\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:16:10","slug":"rescuers-try-to-free-survivors-trapped-inside-indonesia-train-after-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554447\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers try to free survivors trapped inside Indonesia train after fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are some victims who are alive to this minute and we&#8217;re hoping to extricate them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We need to involve personnel with certain skills to perform a measured extrication.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bobby Rasyidin, the president director of state-owned railway operator KAI,  said on Tuesday that 81 injured are being treated for their injuries in nearby hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rasyidin added that the accident happened when the commuter train hit a taxi, which was lying across the middle of the rail crossing, preventing the train from moving forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An oncoming long-distance train then crashed into a women-only carriage on the passenger train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some people screamed &#8220;hysterically&#8221; as the trains collided, one passenger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/indonesia\/articles\/c5yvynj08z7o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the BBC&#8217;s Indonesia service<\/a>. Other eyewitnesses said they saw &#8220;many victims&#8221; injured in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;There are some victims who are alive to this minute and we&#8217;re hoping to extricate them,&#8221; he said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-554447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}