Nine dead after Turkish high-speed train crashes in Ankara

Nine people have been killed and 47 injured after a Turkish high-speed train crashed into an overpass in the country's capital.

It was caused by a collision with a local train, Ankara governor Vasip Sahin said.

Mr Sahin said the train, which was travelling to the central province of Konya, had crashed into a locomotive which carries out track inspections.

At least two carriages derailed and hit the station's overpass, which then collapsed on top of the train.

Three members of the train's crew are among the dead.

There were 206 passengers on board but everyone has now been freed, said transport minister Mehmet Cahit Turhan.

Footage showed emergency workers at the crash site, where carriages were trapped beneath the mangled wreckage of the overpass at the Marsandiz train station, to the west of the capital.

It was unclear how fast the trains were going, but it occurred at a station where the Ankara-Konya train does not stop.

A technical inspection was being carried out to try to find the cause of the crash.

Turkey's worst rail disaster in recent history was in July 2004 when 41 people were killed and 80 injured after a high-speed train derailed in the northwestern province of Sakarya.