From UK Sky News

A passenger train and a bus have crashed in Canadian capital Ottawa causing “multiple fatalities”.

Witnesses said the front end of the double-decker bus was torn off when it collided with the train at a rail crossing.

Ottawa Fire spokesman Mark Messier told CP24 television there were “multiple fatalities” and that a number on the bus were injured.

He said there were no injuries on the Via Rail passenger train but all of Ottawa’s first responders were sent to the scene.

The accident happened just outside a suburban train station in the city’s west end at around 8.45am local time, the middle of the morning commute.

David Hugill, a passenger on the train involved in the crash told Canada’s CBC News: “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. We’re fragile little creatures.”

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,” Lolgis said. “He just didn’t stop.”

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