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Train Smashes into Koh Samet-Bound Bus, 3 Dead

A bus is knocked off the tracks by a train Sunday at an uncontrolled intersection west of Bangkok in a still image from security camera footage.

BANGKOK — A train smashed into a double-decker bus carrying tourists at an uncontrolled railway crossing west of Bangkok on Sunday, with reports that three people were killed and more than two dozen injured.

Security video showed the bus moving slowly across the tracks and stopping momentarily before it is hit by the train. A car had crossed the tracks safely from the opposite direction a few seconds earlier.

Soon after the accident, the driver of another bus behind the one that was hit is seen getting out and running toward the crash. Another video from a camera positioned at a different angle shows the bus being hit and dragged some distance in a cloud of dust.