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2 killed in train-ambulance crash in Argentina

Ambulance crossing over a railway was hit by a passing train

Xinhua General News Service

BUENOS AIRES — Two people were killed and two others seriously injured on Sunday when an ambulance collided with a train in Buenos Aires, Argentina’s capital.

The accident occurred in the neighborhood of Parque Patricios when the ambulance tried to pass a junction where a road and a railway line joins and was hit by a passing train.

A patient, who was receiving heart-failure treatment, and his relative in the ambulance were killed on the spot.

The ambulance driver and a doctor were critically injured and had been taken to hospital for treatment.

A police investigation is underway.

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