Train Collision Kills 14, Injures Dozens In Indonesia

Indonesia's president ordered an investigation 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 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 on Monday night, she said, when her train stopped at the Bekasi Timur station some 25 kilometres (15 miles) from Jakarta.

"It all happened so fast, in a split second," Sausan recounted.