GALLERY: Joburg train collision
Metrorail confirmed that a side train collision between the two trains, T0601 and 1817, had occurred at Elandsfontein at around 06:25am.
A bystander takes a photograph of a train collision in Elandsfontein in Johannesburg East that left one man dead and 102 people injured on 1 June 2017. The collision was due to improper signalling as a result of cable theft, and apart from injuries left many commuters stranded. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
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- A bystander takes a photograph of a train collision in Elandsfontein in Johannesburg East that left one man dead and 102 people injured on 1 June 2017. The collision was due to improper signalling as a result of cable theft, and apart from injuries left many commuters stranded. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
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- A policeman stands guard at a train collision in Elandsfontein in Johannesburg East that left one man dead and 102 people injured on 1 June 2017. The collision was due to improper signalling as a result of cable theft, and apart from injuries left many commuters stranded. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
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- A forensic pathologist stands alongside a train collision in Elandsfontein in Johannesburg East that left one man dead and 102 people injured on 1 June 2017. The collision was due to improper signalling as a result of cable theft, and apart from injuries left many commuters stranded. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
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- Forensic patholigists enter the scene of a train collision in Elandsfontein in Johannesburg East that left one man dead and 102 people injured on 1 June 2017. The collision was due to improper signalling as a result of cable theft, and apart from injuries left many commuters stranded. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
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- A forensic pathologist takes photographs of a train collision in Elandsfontein in Johannesburg East that left one man dead and 102 people injured on 1 June 2017. The collision was due to improper signalling as a result of cable theft, and apart from injuries left many commuters stranded. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
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- The scene of a train collision in Elandsfontein in Johannesburg East that left one man dead and 102 people injured on 1 June 2017. The collision was due to improper signalling as a result of cable theft, and apart from injuries left many commuters stranded. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
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- Forensic pathologists remove the body of a man killed during a train collision in Elandsfontein in Johannesburg East that also left 102 people injured on 1 June 2017. The collision was due to improper signalling as a result of cable theft, and apart from injuries left many commuters stranded. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
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