Ottawa crash: Six dead after collision between passenger train and bus....

A city bus is severely damaged after colliding with a passenger train at a crossing in Ottawa, Ontario (Picture: AP /The Canadian Press, Terry Pedwell)

Six people have died and dozens injured after a passenger train collided with a bus in the Canadian capital of Ottawa.
The crash happened on a railway crossing just outside a suburban train station in the city’s west end in the middle of the morning commute.

Damage: The train collided with a city bus (Picture: AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Terry Pedwell)

Ottawa fire services spokesman Mark Messier told local television station CP24 there are ‘multiple fatalities’, while another 30 have been injured.
The front end of the double-decker bus was completely ripped off on impact with the train and a number of passengers on the bus were injured. There were no injuries on the train.

Mangled wreckage: Rescue workers at the scene (Picture: AP /The Canadian Press, Terry Pedwell)

Pascal Lolgis, who witnessed the crash, said the bus appeared to drive through a lowered crossing barrier.
‘Boom! It went into the train like that,’ he said. ‘He just didn’t stop.’

The bus ‘appeared to drive through a closed crossing’ (Picture: (AP /The Canadian Press, Terry Pedwell)

Robert Kurtenbach, who was on the top deck of the bus, told the Ottawa  Citizen: ‘I could see bodies lying there. The bus didn’t appear to slow down.’
David Hugill, a passenger on the train, added: ‘It’s horrible. What can I say? It was really undramatic on the train. It certainly didn’t feel like it was an incident of that magnitude from where we were sitting.
‘What can I say? It’s a brutal, brutal thing,’ he told told Canada’s CBC News.
Canada’s main rail companies -Canadian National Railway Co and Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd – are currently reviewing safety standards after a deadly train crash on July 6 that killed 50 people in Quebec.

At least five people are feared dead (Picture: AP /The Canadian Press, Terry Pedwell)

Mayor Jim Watson tweeted from the scene: ‘My thoughts are with the victims of this accident. Please pray for those affected and for our 1st responders dealing with this tragedy.’