ANKARA, Aug 11 (AFP) - At least five people were killed and 23 others injured when two trains collided head-on near Istanbul in northwestern Turkey on Wednesday, a railway spokesman told AFP.
"The latest information we have is of five dead and 23 injured," Mehmet Ayci said.
The two trains collided in the province of Kocaeli, southeast of Istanbul, after one of them apparently passed a red light, officials said.
The accident occurred three weeks after 37 people were killed and some 80 injured when a newly-inaugurated express train derailed in the same region.