Two trains including an inter-city express crashed head-on in western Turkey on Wednesday, killing at least four people and injuring 70 more, Transport Minister Binali Yildirim said. The trains ploughed into each other in the late afternoon near Tavsancil in northwestern Turkey, around 60 km (40 miles) from Istanbul and not far from the spot where 39 people died last month when a new, super express train came off the rails. There was conflicting information on the toll. Salih Gun, a local member of parliament, told Reuters nine people had been killed. Yildirim said it was not clear if there were more corpses inside the wreckage. "Four passengers have died and around 70 were injured and taken to hospitals, which are still treating 22 injured passengers," Yildirim told a news conference in the town of Gebze near the crash site. "After the rescue work it will become clear if there are more dead in the damaged carriages," he said. --MORE 2306 Local Time 2006 GMT
