Train vs truck: 6 dead, 20 critical.

(From The Nation (Thailand))

Byline: The Nation.

Six people were killed and almost 50 others injured after a train heading from northern Malaysia to Bangkok slammed into a truck yesterday in Ratchaburi's Muang district, police said.

The express train from the Malaysian town of Butterworth with more than 400 passengers onboard crashed into a speeding 10-wheel truck that had broken through barriers at a rail crossing in attempt to beat the train, said Lt-Colonel Kiattipong Damrongchaiwong of Muang Ratchaburi police station.

Three passengers on the train, including a foreign woman, and three people in the truck were killed and almost 50 were …