SOME 3,000 people were dead or injured after two trains carrying fuel collided and exploded at a North Korean railway station near the Chinese border yesterday.

NORTH Korea declared a state of emergency and closed down phonelines last night as the paranoid Stalinist state attempted to impose a news blackout after as many as 3,000 people were killed or injured in a horror train crash.

North Korea declared a state of emergency tonight after as many as 3,000 people were killed or injured when two fuel trains collided and exploded at a station near the Chinese border.