MEXICO CITY -- (AP) -- A passenger train crashed into a locomotive in eastern Cuba on Monday, killing at least 13 people and seriously injuring 65, a news agency reported.
The Mexican government news agency Notimex quoted the Cuban Interior Ministry as saying the crash occurred outside the village of Caguasal, 280 miles east of Havana.
The train, headed from Santiago to Havana, was carrying a large number of conscripts doing their military service, the report quoted Cuban state television as saying. The train crashed into a locomotive belonging to the sugar ministry.
No further details were available.
The report, monitored in Mexico City, said firefighters, army troops, police and civilian volunteers rushed to the scene to aid survivors.
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