ANKARA, July 22 (AFP) - Up to 100 people may have died when a train derailed Thursday in northwestern Turkey, a local official told the NTV news channel.
"We do not exactly how many people died in the accident, but we estimate that nearly 100 people were killed," Feridun Turan, the mayor of Pamukova town, near the site of the accident, said.
He said several people were also injured in the accident when the train, which was on its way from Istanbul to the capital Ankara, derailed due to a yet unknown reason near Pamikova in Sakarya province.
The Anatolia news agency put the toll at 50 killed and 20 injured, but gave no source for the information.
A doctor from a hospital near the accident site had earlier put the death toll at least 30 killed.