JAKARTA, April 28 -- The death toll from a train collision near the Indonesian capital Jakarta has risen to 14 with another 84 injured, the train operator said on Tuesday, as rescuers completed work to extract survivors still trapped in the wreckage.
The collision between a commuter train and a long-distance train happened late on Monday in Bekasi, just outside Jakarta.
Bobby Rasyidin, chief executive of Indonesia's state railway firm PT KAI, said the death toll had risen to 14.
Mohammad Syafii, the head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, said on Tuesday that the evacuation had been completed, adding that it had been a delicate process to rescue trapped passengers from the mangled carriages.
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